Ok, so i lied. Turned out i had one more chapter in me before the summer ended.
Before we start, i have some thank you's to give.
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Speaking of Alien Lunch, for those wondering about that, i really want to continue that, i really do (i have a lot of ideas for different chapters) i just don't know how to articulate them into words.
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Chapter 6
"Blackmail to a Redhead"
"You did WHAT?!"
Right now, Fanny was sitting with her friends at their usual lunch table. Word had already gotten out across McClintlock High about how The Fan was willingly paired up with Dork-lovsky.
"Look, it was either him or working alone."
"Abby thought you had Rick," Abby said in a curious tone.
"Yeah, like he was gonna be a HUGE help. The only useful thing he did was pick the time period and I refuse reading about the 19th century by myself."
"B-But...it's Dork-lovsky," Wally argued again. "I mean-Just look at him!"
The 6 teens looked over at Patton, who was sitting by himself as usual, eating a huge bite of a hot dog. Chewing, he looked over at his milk carton and started at it for moment, contemplating whether or not he wanted a drink, despite having a mouthful of sausage. Suddenly, he smiled as he got up and got 2 straws. He then sat back down, ate another bite of his lunch, took the 2 straws he grabbed, and, to the group's surprise, stuck them into his nostrils and began to loudly snort, gaining the attention of the tables around him. The group watched in shock and disgust as the milk began to flow through the straw and up his nose as he continued to eat.
"I-Is he drinking through his nose?," Kuki asked.
"Yeah," Rachel said, as she started to look slightly green.
"Hey look behind him," Wally whispered excitedly as he pointed back to Patton. The 6 teens saw 2 twin teen boys, that Wally knew well as football players, creeping up behind Patton, who didn't even seem to notice. Suddenly, the twins stopped right behind Patton. One of twins took a paper bag and blew it up, handed it to his brother who suddenly popped it.
The sound shocked Patton and he slightly jumped, milk forcefully spewing out of his nose as he nearly choked on his hot dog. The cafeteria erupted in laughter as Patton sputtered and coughed.
"Way to drink, Dork-lovsky!"
Patton started to calm down as he took large breaths, and saw the milk stream down his face onto his hoodie. "Yeah," he nervously laughed with everyone else, "p-pretty funny you guys," he said to the twins behind him, who were snickering to each other.
"And that," Hoagie said, gaining Fanny's attention back to the table, "is gonna be your partner for the next 2 weeks."
"Look, it might be a little odd," she said, almost pausing before the work odd, "but he said he'd do anything for me and this is it. Plus ANYBODY would be a better partner than Rick would.:
"And you're sure that HE'S gonna be better than Rick?"
"100%."
Fanny started to eat again before she saw her friends stare above her, Kuki and Hoagie covering their noses. She then felt a couple of drops on her face and looked up to find staring above her a familiar pair of mismatched eyes on a smiling face.
"AAHHH!" She screamed for the second time that day before calming down and looking back up at Patton, who was still sporting straws in his nostrils. "Oh, uh..hey there," she said awkwardly waving at him. The rest of the group waved as well and muttered "hello" and "hi and "Dork-lovsky".
"Hi," he waved back to everyone, "And it's Drilovsky," he said to Wally.
"Hey, Fan. Um...I just wanted to see how you're doing and everything."
"Great. Now is that all?"
"Yeah. Sorry, I just figured after this morning, I'd check up on you after this morning."
"Look, I already told you. It's fine."
"Still, I just want to make sure. Oh, I have some extra cookies if you want. Don't worry, they're just plain chocolate chip this time," he said as he pulled out a small red bag from in his hat to hand to her.
She looked at it, and then to her still speechless friends. She had enjoyed the cookies he gave her earlier (truth be told, she devoured them only 10 minutes after she got them in 2nd period), so she figured there was no point in complaining. Plus, he did look at her expectantly to accept them.
"Uh..thanks," she said as she took the bag.
"No problem," he said before he walked back over to his own table. "What are friends for?"
Fanny almost choked when she heard that. She looked to her friends who were still speechless staring wide-eyed, Wally spitting his soda across the table in shock. There was an almost eerie silence in the cafeteria as everyone just looked over to their table. Fanny then looked up to Patton, who had now sat back down and continued drinking the milk, through his mouth this time. She looked back in shock and said in a small voice.
"Ok, maybe 90%."
Fanny was sitting at a lab table, looking at the different test tubes of liquid in front of her. She would be working right now, if it wasn't for the constant chattering of her partner across from her.
"Here I am now having caught an exclusive interview with The Fan, the leader of the famous Teen Ninjas, who has made the most daring, and some would argue, stupid, decision McClintlock High has ever seen."
Fanny looked over annoyingly to another redhead. However, instead of having it wild, curly, and frizzy, it was straight and tied neatly down to the girl's shoulders. The top of her head laid a reporter's cap, and a braceleted hand held a small camera while the other hand, carrying many types of rings, laid a paper and a pencil.
"She has voluntarily been paired up with Patton Drilovsky, or as many of you know him as, Dork-lovsky, who has recently reached a new low by peeing himself in his sleep in algebra."
The reporter girl, Georgette, looked over at Fanny, who was looking at the instructions.
"So many important questions are about to be answered by this action right now. So tell us Fan," Fanny turned around to face Georgette. "Who picks out your friend's clothes?"
"….I'm sorry, what?," she asked stunned for a moment
"I mean, come on," Georgette continued, "don't act like you haven't seen it. Those galaxy leggings. That light blue sweater. The tiger shirt. You can NOT act like that is fashionably acceptable."
"Of all the classes to NOT have Rachel in," she thought to herself as she rolled her eyes. "I meant, what does THAT question have to do with anything you just said?"
"I said I would answer the important questions. And trust me, THIS is an important question. Now, please tell why does she just ignore all the rules of color coordination?"
Fanny thought about it for a moment before she turned back to Georgette.
"Why are you asking me this when we're supposed to be working on chemistry?"
"This is the only class I have you in, meaning this is the only opportunity I have to ask you. Now answer the question."
"Before I do, can I ask what the other questions look like?"
Georgette momentarily put down her camera and began to read off her notepad.
"Ahem. "Have you ever tried to give Rachel a fashion intervention?"
"What made your friend think that socks and sandals were ever in style? "Do you think there's any hope for her to learn better-"
"Do you have any questions that aren't about my friend's fashion choices?," Fanny interrupted.
It took Georgette a while as she flipped through a couple of pages from her notebook before she stopped and asked, "Why is your hair always such a wild mess?"
"Goodbye Georgette," Fanny said as she started to get up from the table and head for the classroom door.
"Hey! Where are you going?"
"The bathroom."
"But we haven't finished our interview yet!"
"Oh, yes we are," Fanny insisted as she closed the door. However Georgette opened it back up and started to follow Fanny inside the bathroom.
"You didn't even answer my questions," Georgette persisted, and Fanny suddenly turned around and stated irritatingly,
"That's because all of them are stupid! If you're gonna pester me about an interview, at least ask me some interesting questions!"
Fanny began to walk back out of the bathroom before Georgette spoke up.
"Ok then. How about why you and Patton both went into the girl's bathroom yesterday?"
Fanny froze at the door and immediately turned back to Georgette.
"What did you say?"
"I was just talking about how on the day of the little "accident", let's call it, I caught you pulling Patton in by the scarf into the girl's bathroom."
She then pulled out a picture from her shirt and indeed it showed a picture of Fanny forcefully pulling Patton by his scarf into a room.
Fanny just looked at the photo in shock.
"Oh, there are so many questions involving this," Georgette said. "And trust me, all of them will be very interesting."
Fanny looked back up at Georgette who had a sly smile, knowing that she had Fanny cornered.
"Are you implying…? You think we..? But we didn't-"
"How would I know that?," she asked in interest as Fanny continued to stutter.
"Fine. I'll do that stupid interview if it means that, she pointed at the picture, stays out of your paper. And no questions involving Rachel's fashion choices."
"Glad you agree," Georgette said as the 2 walked out as Georgette started to ask more questions.
As she talked, Fanny was almost sure she could hear a familiar voice gurgling and protesting, followed by other voices laughing coming from the boy's bathroom. She then felt another strange twinge in her stomach before looking back up to Georgette.
But later, Fanny said interrupting Georgette's questions. I'm not in the mood now, Georgy.
"What?! But The Fan is going to work with the biggest dork in the entire school! This is the biggest news I've gotten in a whole month!"
"I don't want to talk about it! At least not now!," she shouted back loudly. "Can we talk later like after school someday or something?"
"Sure. Next week sound alright?"
"Fine, now help with whatever we're supposed to do in this class," and the 2 girls entered back into their class in silence.
Fanny walked out of her last class of the day, passing by several running students who began talking to each other. She stopped at her locker and began to unlock it when, out of the corner of her eye, she saw Rachel, followed by Herbie, walk towards her direction.
"Ah. Just the person I need to see," Fanny thought as Rachel approached her.
"Hey Rachel!" Fanny greeted her happily. "Wanna go out for pizza?"
Rachel was about to reply but was interrupted by Herbie.
"Sorry Fan, but we've got work to do," he said as Rachel glared over in his direction, but he didn't seem to notice and continued.
"Ms McKenzie and I have some more work on history to do. And algebra. And maybe over dinner, a little chemistry."
"WHAT?!," the 2 girls shouted in shock.
"No! I'm not gonna do that," Rachel stated, almost punching Herbie on the spot.
"You have her to work for history and that's it!"
"No, when i said I get her for the next project, I meant I would get her for the length of the project's time. Meaning I get her for 2 weeks, whenever i want, that doesn't have disturb any potential curfew of course."
"Hey! I may not have been there when Hoagie made this stupid decision with you, but i'm pretty sure this wasn't the deal!"
"Exactly! And besides, what would make you think I would agree to this?," Rachel asked enraged.
However, Herbie just remained calm and began to walk as he talked.
"You know Rachel, you have a very impressive record. Straight A's, honor student, student council. You are on the way of being right behind Abby as salutatorian. It would be such a shame if that straight "A" record was to suddenly drop down a couple of letters, he then looked back at the girls. Wouldn't it?"
Rachel and Fanny looked at each other and both sighed in defeat. "Yes, it would."
"So, shall we head off to study?"
Rachel then begrudgingly followed him as she angrily grumbled "Fine"
The 2 began to walk out as Fanny looked very angry.
"Someday, I'm gonna kill that boy," she thought as Herbie and Rachel walked out the door, Rachel practically steaming out her ears. "Unless if Rachel beats me to it."
Fanny unlocked her locker. Suddenly out fell a tall wet black haired boy, all squished inside the tiny locker, who promptly stretched back out as he landed on the floor
"AAHHH!," She screams for the third time that day at the exact same sight. The boy, who was now sporting 3 toilet seats around his neck, opened his eyes and looked up to the face that freed him.
"Hi Fan," Patton cheerfully greeted her as he laid on the floor.
"You need to stop doing that," she told him annoyed as he started to get up.
"Sorry about that," he said as he began to stretch out.
"How long have you been in there?"
"I don't know. Maybe an hour, I guess."
"What were you even doing in there?," she asked him before she heard loud laughing close behind her.
She turned to Wally who was walking and laughing with a couple of other boys.
"Ha ha! Very funny Beetles," she shouted sarcastically to Wally while pointing to Patton, who was now stretching his arm out.
"What? We didn't do that Fan," Wally shouted back as they walked out the school doors. "Meet you later for pizza!"
"He didn't do it?" Fanny thought to herself. "But then, who did?"
"By the way, this is for you," Patton said as he handed Fanny a small note.
"Thought you'd want to see your friend one last time before school's over", it read before a signature that read "Rick" with a heart followed after it.
"Oh for goodness sake," she thought as she rolled her eyes. She growled as she crumpled up the note and looked at Patton who had now finished stretching and looked down to her.
"Are you ok?," he asked, his face showing concern. She began to angrily walk as he followed her out the school. He was walking so close to her she could feel his breath down her head. She finally stopped near the walls of the steps, being slightly bumped by Patton at the sudden stop, and looked up to him.
"Can you please back up a little?," she asked motioning him to take a few step back. She then spoke up to him.
"Look, I'm sure you're an interesting person to be around, but you and I are not friends. I honestly don't even really know you, and you didn't even know I was allergic to something. At the most, you and I are going to be partners for 1 project. For just 2 weeks. Yes, I scratched your back and right now you're scratching mine, but that's as far as whatever this is, is gonna go."
"Y-You mean you don't..like me?," Patton asked in sad uncertainty.
"No. No. No," she started to reassure him. "It's not that..I-It's just..," she sighed. "It's not that I don't like you. But I can't be friends with someone I don't really know. Plus, i don't know is you know this but...we are on 2 different levels."
"Wait? We're playing a game? What kind of console are we using?"
"NO! Not that game! What i mean is... I am THE top dog. The alpha, the number one, the big cheese. I am The Fan, the leader of the Teen Ninjas, the fiercest of the fierce, the worst of the worst, and all that other stuff."
She then stopped talking and looked over at Patton, who was just blankly looking at her, "And you are…", she started but stopped, trying to find the nicest words she could think of what she wanted to say, "well, no offense, but you are...not," she bluntly said. "You're more of an omega, like the end of the alphabet, the background singer of the choir, that last cookie you find stowed away at the end of the package."
"Cool! What kind of cookie?"
"The point is," Fanny continued, ignoring Patton's comment, "you and I do not mix. It's not you, or me, it's just we have too different...reputations."
"Oh. I...guess that makes sense," he quietly said, lowering his head down.
"But if it helps, we will still see each other for 2 weeks as partners-"
"Really?," he said, lighting up almost immediately. "Well, ok then partner."
"Yeah. We're...partners."
"How about a hug, partner?" He asked as he extended his arms out.
"Don't push it!"
"Ok," he said, still looking happy, as he put his arms back down and the 2 started to walk back over near the main school's steps.
"Uh..Fan?," he nervously asked.
"Yes Whizzer?"
"Is it alright for partners to walk home with each other?"
She thought about it for a moment before looking over to the remote steps. She assumed her friends had already went over to the pizzeria without her. Aside from the 2 of them, nobody else was around.
"Now that," she said, turning back to him, "we can do."
The 2 began to walk towards the direction of Patton's house, Fanny following Patton, until-
"The Fan!"
Fanny groaned as she heard Georgette's voice, has she ran up to Fanny and Patton.
"H-Hey Georgette," Patton stuttered as Fanny swore she could see his cheeks begin to turn red.
"Hi," she said quickly before turning her attention back to Fanny.
"Are you going somewhere with him?," she asked intrigued.
"Well-"
"She's going to walk home with me today," Patton said excitedly.
Georgette gained the brightest smile on her face while Fanny facepalmed.
"Really? Well, then you wouldn't mind if i took a picture of 2 good friends together," she said as she held out a camera. "For me?," she said giving a coy smile in Patton's direction, who now had a red sweating face.
"Actually Geor-"
"O-Of course!" He said as he suddenly pulled Fanny in for a hug, almost crushing her, and smiled.
Georgette took their picture and got close to Patton. Thank you so much.
"Y-You're welcome."
She then ran off in giddy, saying something along the lines around "This is SO going on the front page!"
Patton let go of Fanny as he looked in the direction Georgette ran off to as Fanny breathed in for air and readjusted her sunglasses.
She also looked at where Georgette ran to, a shocked look on her face, as she thought
"This is going to be BAD for my reputation."
Roll credits! *ding*
Well, it's more end chapter but you know what i mean.
Boy am i cruel. I never noticed it until i started writing fics.
Hope Georgette lived up to your expectations, Socks! : )
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