CHAPTER 9:

The next morning, Doc had taken the liberty of providing Marty with some 80's clothes so that he could blend more easily. These clothes included looser jeans, white Nike sneakers, a denim jacket, and an orange inflated vest. Mary couldn't help but feel an odd sense of Déjà vu with this clothing choice, but hey, it looked nice.

Once Marty was changed, Doc drove Marty to the high school and when Marty exited the vehicle, he noted the obscenely large amount of graffiti covering the walls and super dirty windows.

"Woah," Marty said, "The heck happened to this place? Looks like a dump."

"Now remember," Doc said, "You need to ensure that your parents meet. If they don't meet, then they won't get married, and if they're not married, they won't have any kids. That's why your brother's disappearing from the photo. And unless you can repair the damage, then your sister will follow, and you'll be next!"

"Sounds pretty heavy," Marty said worried.

"Weight has nothing to do with it!" Doc said.

They entered the high school, which was already filled with students bustling to the next class.

"Now which one's your pop?" Doc asked. It didn't take long for Marty to find him.

"That's him," Marty said. He pointed at a scrawny kid walking down the hall, with several older boys running up to him and kicking his ass. Literally, the kid turned and Marty saw a piece of paper with an arrow pointing to his butt and the words "Kick me" written on it. Doc looked at Marty with a confused look.

"Maybe you were adopted," he said. Then Marty noticed an older guy walking up to George, ripping the paper off his back, and scolding him.

"Oh my God, that's Strickland!" Marty said surprised, "Jeez, did that guy ever have hair?"

"This boy's pathetic!" Doc said, "What did your mother even see in that kid?"

"I don't know Doc," Marty said, "I guess she just felt sorry for him because her dad hit him with a car." Then Marty recognized his mistake.

"Hit me with the car." Oops.

"That's the Florence Nightingale effect," Doc said, "Happens in hospitals when nurses fall in love with their patients. Go to it, kid!"

With Doc's words, Marty went up to George and helped him pick up his books, which fell when he was getting bullied.

"George! Buddy!" Marty said, trying his best to sound casual, "I've been looking all over for you. Remember me? The guy who saved your life?"

"Oh," George said, "Yeah."

"Good," Marty said, "Because there's someone I want you to meet." Marty led George down the hallway to a locker, where Lorraine and two of her friends were standing and talking.

"Lorraine?" Marty asked. Lorraine turned and suddenly her face changed to surprise.

"Marty!" Lorraine said as she pressed her back on the locker.

"Hi," Marty said, "I wanted you to meet my good friend, George McFly!"

"Hello," George asked, trying to sound suave as he leaned next to Lorraine. But Lorraine was too busy focusing on Marty.

"How's your head? Is it okay?" She leaned forward and extended her arm to touch Marty's head, but the bell rang and Lorraine's friends pulled her away.

"Doc, she didn't even look at him!" Marty said in dissapointment.

"This is more serious than I thought!" Doc said, "Apparently your mother is infatuated with you instead of your father!" It took Marty a second to properly process those words.

"Wait a minute Doc," Marty said, "Are you telling me my mother as got the HOTS for me?"

"Precisely!" Doc said.

"Wow!" Marty said stunned, "This is really heavy!" Doc turned to Marty with another confused look.

"There's that word again. Heavy," Doc said, "Why do keep saying that? Is that something kids in 2015 say or is there a problem with the Earth's gravitational pull?"

"Uh…" Marty just said, not entirely sure how to answer Doc's question. But it didn't matter, because Doc just continued.

"The only way we're going to get those two together is through some social…" Doc couldn't find the right word.

"What? You mean like a date?" Marty asked.

"Exactly!"

"Well, what kind of date? I mean, what did kids do in the 80's?"

"They're YOUR parents!" Doc said, "What are their common interests, what do they like to do together?" Marty thought about it.

"Well…nothing," Marty said.

"Look!" Doc said pointing to a poster on the school wall, "There's a rhythmic ritual coming up!" Marty looked at the poster, which was dark blue and had images of coral and fish painted on it. White words were painted on it, which said:

"Saturday Night! ENCHANTMENT UNDER THE SEA! Be there or be square!"

"Of course!" Marty said excitedly, "The Enchantment Under the Sea Dance! They're supposed to go there! That's where they kiss for the first time!"

"Alright," Doc said, determined with a new plan, "I'm going to work on getting the DeLorean to work and get you back home. Meanwhile, you stick to your father like glue and make sure he asks that girl to the dance!"

Marty waited until lunch time and found George eating by himself with two notebooks in front of him.

"Hey George!" Marty said as he sat across from him, "Remember that girl I introduced you to? Lorraine?" Marty turned to see Lorraine chatting with her friends and then back to George, who was still invested in his notebooks.

"What are you writing there, George?" Marty asked curiously.

"Oh, stories," George said, "Science fiction stories about visitors from other planets and stuff." Marty gaped at George, surprised at this fact he never knew about his dad.

"Get out!" Marty said surprised, "I didn't you did anything creative! Let me read one of those." He reached out to George's notebook, but George quickly placed his hands on the notebook preventing it from moving.

"No!" George said, almost panicky, "I never let anyone read my stories."

"Why not?"

"Well, what if they don't like them?" George said, "What if they say I'm no good?" Marty just had a strange sense of déjà vu, remembering how he said the exact same words yesterday (or was it day before yesterday? Jeez, time travel can be so confusing.)

"I guess it doesn't really make any sense right?" George asked as he went back to his work.

"No," Marty said, "No it kind of does actually." That was actually kind of a truth. But Marty didn't have the time to dwell on it; he has a job to do.

"So anyway George," Marty said, tapping on his notebook to get his attention, "About Lorraine, she really likes you."

"Yeah?" George asked intrigued.

"Yeah," Marty said, "She told me that she wants you to ask her out to the dance on Saturday. All you gotta do is go up and ask her." Suddenly, George turned nervous.

"Woah, right here, right now in the cafeteria?" George asked frightened, "What if she says no? I just don't think I can take that kind of rejection. Besides, I'm sure she would rather go with someone else."

"Who?" Marty asked, confused.

"Biff," George answered as he pointed towards Lorraine. Marty turned to find Biff and his cronies surrounding Lorraine, with Biff literally trying to get in her pants, much to her protests.

"Oh come on, you want it! You want it!" Biff said with a cocky smile, "You know you want it, and you know you want me to give it to you!"

"Shut your mouth!" Lorraine cried out as she slapped Biff on the face, "I'm not that kind of girl!"

"Well, maybe you are and you just don't know it yet!" Biff said as she clenched Lorraine tightly.

"Get your meathooks off of me!" Lorraine cried out. Marty couldn't stand watching his mom get abused, and before he figured out what he was doing, he already grabbed Biff by the color.

"You heard her! She said get your meathooks-" Then Marty forgot how big Biff was and immediately tried to calm down.

"-off. Uh, please?" Marty finished. But Biff looked down at Marty with cold eyes.

"What's it to you, butthead?" he said giving Marty a shove, "You know you've been looking for a fight!"

He shoved Marty again, and this time Marty responded by shoving him back and getting ready for a fistfight. But Biff stopped as he caught a look at a disappointed Strickland. He then lowered his head to Marty and spoke calmly, threatening him.

"Now since you're new here, I'm gonna cut you a break," Biff said, "Today. Now why don't you make like a tree, and get outta here?"

It's make light a tree and leave, idiot! That's what Marty would have said, but he didn't want to provoke an actual fight with Biff. He turned to try and convince George to try again, but when he did, George was gone.

Hope you guys are enjoying the reinterpretation so far. I have a little bit of a problem though. The toughest part of this rewrite is to take the various period elements from the 1950's and update it to a reference from the 80's. The one moment I could not figure out, involves when Marty plays Johnny B Good years before it's actually written and a band member contacts Chuck Berry, unintentionally inspiring him to write the song. I cannot think of a substitute song for this moment. It will have to be something from the 90's and feature an element that wasn't featured in the 80's before. If any of you guys have any ideas, could you please suggest them in your review?