Beyond Good and Evil – A Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures Fanfiction

Chapter Nine


Unbeknownst to her, he followed her to the school office and watched her retrieve her schedule. He watched as she did the routine mundane things that administration had transfer students do, supposedly to help them adjust to the move. He gave a silent laugh. This girl will never adjust. She'll never make friends, or go to the prom. She'll never belong to any of those stupid cliques girls his age seem to gravitate towards to. She'll never have best friends or confidants. She'll be alone. For the rest of her stay here, and possibly for the rest of her life. She'll be alone. Just like him.

"Hey," he greeted as his stride matched hers once she exited the office.

She gave him a dirty look. "I said I didn't need any help," she muttered.

"Did I ask?" he replied. "How do you know I'm not heading over this way too?"

Again, another dirty look. "Because," she hissed, "if you were heading this way, you would have been long gone from here by now. The only reason you're here, right now, when I'm here, is because you waited for me to come out of that office."

He grinned. She was sharp.

"So what?" he asked. "Does this mean you don't want my company?"

She stopped and looked at him.

"What is this?" she asked. "Have pity on the freak day?"

He gave her a bored look. "Is that all you think about?" he questioned. He really didn't need her answer; he knew it already. "Why are you so obsessed with your looks? You're so vain," he threw at her.

He watched her eyes cloud over at his words.

"Vain?" she repeated disbelievingly. "Vain?" she said again.

"Is there an echo here?" he asked snidely as he watched her lips tried to form words which never came out. Hah! That shut her up.

"Yes, vain," he reiterated. "If you weren't so focused on your looks, maybe we can have a normal conversation." He gave an aggrieved sigh. "But that might be hoping for too much. I guess I'll just see you later," he finished as he started to walk away from her.

He smiled. He wasn't going to turn back and look at her, but he would bet he had just left her standing there with her mouth open. He had found that it was quite easy to disconcert people. It's a gift.


Jessie stared at the disappearing figure, agape. She didn't understand him. Just didn't understand him. He said the most outrageous things. Did the most outrageous things. He left her unbalanced and in mental disarray all in the span of less than twenty-four hours.

How did he do it? How did he know which buttons to push and prod?

She didn't know how long she stood there, staring after him long after he was gone. She shook her head and started to walk again. People were whispering around her and this time, she wasn't sure whether it was because of her face or because she stood there for a long time, like an idiot, staring into space.

She quickened her pace. It wouldn't do for her to be late on her first day. That just drew more attention than necessary.

Maybe, maybe she should have accepted the help of finding her way around when it was offered. She gave a silent curse. No! She wasn't about to start asking for help now.

With a small sigh of regret, she began to search for the room that was her first class. It was going to be a long day.


Updated August 2006