"Here's my impression of a life at Big Bri's house." John said t everyone standing up.
As our father "Son!"
As Brian "Yeah Dad?"
As our father "How's your day, pal?"
As Brian "Great Dad, how's your?"
As our father "Super, say son, how'd you like to go fishing this weekend?"
As Brian "Great Dad, but I've got homework to do!"
As our father "That's alright son, you can d it, on the boat!"
As Brian "Gee!"
As our father "Dear isn't our son swell?"
As our mother "Yes Dear, isn't life swell?" Bender mimes mother kissing father and then father kissing mother and then father punching mother in the face and suddenly it's not so funny anymore.
Although I was wasn't laughing to begin with. I didn't like John picking on my brother like that, and he had no idea how our family really was and it wasn't anything close to this. John looked over at me with his usual smirk but as soon as he saw me face his smirk dropped.
"Alright, what about your family?" Andrew asked, diverting Bender's attention from me.
I had a bad feeling about this, "Oh, mine? That's real easy!" Bender told him standing up again.
"Stupid, worthless, no good, God damned, freeloading, son of a bitch, retarded, bigmouth, know it all, asshole, jerk!" John said as his father,
then as his mother he says, "You forgot ugly, lazy and disrespectful." Bender slams his hand back to slap his invisible mother.
Then as his father he says, "Shut up bitch! Go fix me a turkey pot pie!"
As himself, "What about you Dad?"
As his father, "Fuck you!"
As himself, "No, Dad, what about you?"
As his father, "Fuck you!"
As himself—yelling, "No, Dad, what about you?"
As his father—yelling, "Fuck you!" He reaches out and pretends he's his father hitting him
."Is that for real?" Brian asked after minutes of silence
John looks over and sneers at Brian, "You wanna come over sometime?"
"That's bullshit. It's all part of your image; I don't believe a word of it." Andrew snaps at John
And I notice that John actually looks hurt by this, but he's quick to cover it up."You don't believe me?"
"No"
"No?"
"Did I stutter?" Andrew said
John walks over to Andrew and rolls up his right sleeve to reveal a circular shaped burn. "Do you believe this? Huh? It's about the size of a cigar...Do I stutter? You see, this is what you get in my house when you spill paint in the garage"
"Oh God." I mutter just low enough so no one could hear me. My hand reaching up to rub the much smaller but similar burn I had on my shoulder blade.
John turns around and begins walking away, "See I don't think that I need to sit here with you fuckin' dildos anymore!" He walks over to a map table and throws all the maps on the floor then climbs up on top of the table and then up to the second floor balcony.
Claire looked over at Andy, "You shouldn't have said that."
He looked back over at her and scowled, "How was I supposed to know, I mean he lies about everything anyway."
I walk over to Andrew and leaned down so we were face to face, "You had no right to say that to him, you don't know anything about his home life. And for your information, John may have cracked a lot of jokes today, but he has not told any of us one lie." I stood up straight; ignoring everyone's shocked faces, and walked up the stairs to the second floor and sat down beside John.
For a few minutes it seemed like John didn't even know I was there, and then he looked over at me with a frown and said, "What do you want? I don't need your pity, so why don't you just go back down stairs." If he was expecting me to get offended or angry, he was sorely disappointed,
"I don't have any pity for you," I told him, he looked at me expectantly.
I slowly pulled my sleeve down, revealing my shoulder blade. His eyebrows went up into his hairline until he looked down at my shoulder and saw my scar that was so similar to the one he bore. His facial expressions changed so fast that if you weren't looking close enough you would have missed it. Shock, sadness, understanding anger.
After I pulled my sleeve back up, he looked up at my face and asked through gritted teeth, "Where the hell did you get that?"
I shook my head and said to him with a small smile, "I don't want to talk about that. The reason I showed you is because I want you to know, you're not alone. And if you ever want to talk or need a place to run to where no one will ask question you cant always come to me."John just looked at me in shock and awe, before he gave me his first real smile of the day. Then he grabbed me and pulled me into a side hug and just held me there. We sat there together like that for a while longer.
When John and I finally pulled away, he looked at me and asked with a smirk, "You ever gotten high before?"
I simply shook my head at him, my face filled with confusion.
John's smirk just got wider, "Well come on then."
Standing up he held his hand out to help me up as well, "Where are we going?" I asked him
"On an adventure." He told me as we walked down the stair back to the others.
"Where are you going?" Andrew asked when he saw us heading towards the library door.
"Out." Was all John said to him, and suddenly everyone was behind us waiting for Bender to give the go ahead.
John had his ear to the door waiting for something, he had a firm grip on my hand and hadn't let go yet. Finally John comes out of the library doors pulling me along behind him, everyone else following behind us.
John and I were walking ahead of everyone else when Claire comes up on the other side of John, "How do you know where Vernon went?" She asked him
"I don't"
Claire huffed, "Well then, how do you know when he'll be back?"
John gave her an annoyed look, "I don't, being bad feels pretty good, huh?" He said that last part turning his head towards me.
I just smirked back at him.
When we finally reach John's locker and John opened it, a guillotine came down and cut off the tope of a shoe.
"Cool." I mutter only loud enough for John to hear, and in return he flashed me a smirk
"Slob!" Andrew scowled at him
John just rolled his eyes at Andrew, "My maid's on vacation."
Reaching in his locker he pulled out a large brown back, opening that he pulled out another, then another, and finally he pulled out a bag of weed from the last bag.
"Drugs…" Brian exclaims, completely horrified
"Screw that Bender, put it back!" Andrew yelled at him
John just ignored him and walked away, with me still by his side.
Walking through the hallway, Andrew came to stop beside John and me, "We'll cross through the lab, and then we'll double back." John said to Andrew and me
Andrew frowned, "You better be right, if Vernon cuts us off it's your fault, asshole!"
I scowl us at Andrew, "Dude, take a freaking chill pill." I said to him and John smirks down at me.
Walking down a hallway we all see Vernon at the end and have to make a detour. We ran this way and that, but it seemed like everywhere we turned Vernon was right there, not paying attention but if he had heard or seen us, we would have been screwed.
Finally stopping in the middle of one of the halls John said to everyone, "Wait! Wait, hold it! Hold it! We have to go through the cafeteria!"
"No, the activities hall." Andrew denied
"Hey man, you don't know what you're talking about!" John growls in frustration
"No you don't know what you're talking about!" Andy yelled at him
Allison squeaked in urgency
Andrew told John, "Now we're through listening to you, we're going this way."
Brian, Claire, and Alison all follow Andrew's way, I look up at John questioningly and when He nodded be began following after them and we all end up running into a hall closed by an iron gate.
"Shit!" Andrew Exclaimed
"Great idea Jack off!" John yelled at him
"Fuck you!" Andrew said to him
"Fuck you! Why didn't you listen to John?" Claire yelled at Andrew
I scowled at her, "Well why didn't you!" I yelled back at her, rendering her speechless
Brian moaned, "We're dead!"
"No, just me!" John stared at me for a minute and I looked back at him questioningly.
"What do you mean?" Brian asked him confused
John grabs my face with both of his hands and brings it closer to his, planting his lips on mine, giving me a firm yet soft, but short kiss before releasing me and turning to everyone else, "Get back to the library, keep your unit on this!" He side shoving his wed down Brian's pants.
John turns back to Andrew and tells him pointing to me, "Make sure she makes it back to the library safely."
Then he runs down the hallway away from them singing, "I wanna be an airborne ranger…"
