Hehe. Long time no see. A year and half isn't long, is it? Yeah, this story got kind of boring to me, so I had to put it on hold while my Law and Order: SVU story took off, but now, that's coming to an end. So, I figured, why not play around with this, try to work with it again…
Nigel felt like he was going to throw up. Really going to throw up. He stared into the boys' bathroom sink, clutching the white porcelain for dear life.
He was sweating and shaking, unable to control his body. This sight had been too much on him. It was overwhelming.
He ran into one of the stall and locked the door, closing himself away from the outside world. Slamming the lid on the toilet down, he sat on it.
Placing his head into his hands, he couldn't believe it. How had this happened? Why did this have to happen? Especially with Chad?
Nigel loved Abby with all his heart, and now he knew that they couldn't be together unless there was some strike of fate.
But why, why did she have to pick Chad? Why in the world with this beautiful, talented, intelligent girl pick this jerk?
How was he going to be able to see her every single day? He'd want to go up to her, shake her, and say 'You're not who you think you are!! You hate Chad, you hate jocks, you're secretly in love with me!!' After a performance like that, he'd have a one-way ticket to the loony-bin.
Who was he kidding? It was over. The squad was going to fall apart. With no Abby to keep him cool, he'd go over edge. He'd be wound so tight all the time that he'd micromanage everything. The team would all turn against him, with the only one understanding him being Hoagie. But Lizzie would control Hoagie in every way, making Hoagie turn away from Nigel.
"Nigel! Will you get out of the bathroom? Coach Stronghold is wondering where you are. He says if skip another class, than you're going to have to attend a parent-teacher conference with you, your father, and him," Nigel heard Hoagie say.
This got Nigel out of the bathroom in a flash. The last time Mr. Uno had to come to a school function, the only thing he talked about was sousaphones.
"Did he really say that?" Nigel asked as Hoagie began to push him into the boys' locker room.
"No. But it worked, didn't it?" Hoagie answered with a smile.
After warm-ups, they were told that today's activity was going to be dodgeball. Squeals of excitement could be heard from Wally.
"Separate into two teams…ladies versus gentlemen," Coach Stronghold boomed. The girls slowly wandered over to the left side of the gym while the boys ran, wanting to get the game started.
"DODGEBALL!" Coach yelled.
Balls began to fly, mostly from the boy's side. In the first few minutes, the good throwers yet weak dodgers were out, along with the people who stood towards the front with no idea what was going on.
Nigel stood in the back, just wanting school to end.
"MR UNO! GET INVOLVED OR I'M FAILING YOU!" Coach Stronghold yelled in Nigel's ear, making him jump in the air with a shout.
"Come on, Numbah One, it's not that bad," Hoagie said to him as he threw a red rubber ball at a redhead not paying attention. It hit right in the arm.
"That's what you think! I have to spend almost every minute of every day with her, and she won't even know what happened! See, look at her!" Nigel exclaimed, as he just threw a ball, not caring where it went.
Abby was standing with Kuki. No one was quite sure how Abby remembered Kuki, but she had. Kuki had come up to Nigel breathless during first period from running through the hallways to find him. "She remembers me," was all she could get out.
As the stood there, a ball started to come at Kuki's head. She bent backwards to dodge it. From across the gym, Nigel could hear shouts of anger coming from Wally.
"Hey! No one throws balls at her! No one but me, of course! See, like this!" Wally said as he began to get ready to throw. He never did, of course, because he was hit in the stomach by a ball.
When he looked up to see who threw it at him, all he got a simple wave from Kuki.
"This is so stupid. I mean, why do we repeat the same thing over and over every single day?" Nigel asked Hoagie, who wasn't listening as Nigel threw another ball, unsure of where it was going.
"WHO THREW THAT AT ME?" he heard a familiar voice say.
"Oops," he thought. If anyone was better than Wally in dodgeball, it was Abby.
"You, sunglasses kid, did you throw that?" Abby yelled as she gripped the ball at her hip.
Nigel pointed to himself, almost asking, "Who me?" He shook his head fervently.
Abby nodded, "Yeah, it was." She then threw the ball at a high speed. Nigel fell to the floor.
"C'mon, if you were so tough to throw it at Abby in the first place, you should be though enough to throw it at her while she's paying attention," Abby said, walking closer to the line.
Nigel gulped, hoping he would get out of this game alive. He then grabbed a ball, got a good grip on it, and threw it as hard and fast as he could. Abby quickly moved to the left to dodge it.
"Not bad, not bad, kid. But you'll have to do better to beat Abby," she said. As she did this, the two of them realized that they were the only ones left on the court. She then chucked the ball with a yell.
Nigel rolled onto the ground before pulling himself up, going away from the ball. Did he want to win to try and protect his image from her, to protect her from the truth of what had really happened, or did he want to lose to because he loved her?
As he had been pondering this, he hadn't been paying attention. Abby took advantage of this, throwing a ball dead on.
It hit Nigel in the face, sending him flying. Hoagie, Wally and Kuki ran over. Coach Stronghold ushered everyone into their 'respective changing areas'
When Nigel finally opened his eyes, Abby's face was above his. "Kid, are you okay?"
Nigel nodded painfully, which caused more pain to fill the sore cheek.
"You just started to space out. I couldn't tell what was happening. I'm so sorry," Abby apologized as she grabbed his hand.
Nigel thought that he was going to pass out when this was happening.
"Abby baby," a voice called out. Nigel groaned. As if this couldn't get any worse.
"Chad!" Abby squealed. She turned back to Nigel. "I'm really sorry," before she ran over to Chad and threw her arms around him.
"Is that Uno? HA! Nice bruise. Did you do this Abby? That's hilarious!" Chad laughed as he embraced her.
Nigel pulled himself to his feet with the help of the others. He then headed to the locker room, with his bruised cheek and bruised ego.
As Nigel and Hoagie sat on the locker room benches waiting for the bell to ring, they just chatted about stupid things: TV, music, what teacher they hated, etc.
But as they were, something caught Nigel's ear. He shushed Hoagie.
"…I'm telling you, she's eating it all up. We're going to The Point tonight. It's all going to be so easy from there. By next week, it'll be the perfect time to implant the chip."
"Chad, you're such a genius."
Nigel gasped. They were talking about Abby!
"I know. And with Abigail Lincoln on the Adult's side, whether she wants to be or not, there'll be no way that stupid Nigel Uno and the rest of the Kids Next Door will be able to stop us."
Nigel turned to Hoagie, whose expression mirrored his. What was going on?
What'd you think? I thought it was a little rushed, but after the huge gap of time, I liked it. They'll probably be 4, at the most 5 more chapters, and the time between them will be long, so don't be expecting updates tomorrow unfortunately. But it you liked it, please tell me. If I don't get reviews, I don't think people like it/read it, so I won't continue it.