Chapter twelve: Accepting love
Jimmy was nervous. Not talking to NASA nervous, or going on a secret mission nervous, no he was Cindy Vortex nervous. And that was the worse kind of nervous he could be, especially at this moment. He gave a quick glance towards around the block, making sure no one was out to see where he was headed, taking in a gulp he turned back towards the door and knocked on it loud enough for someone to hear.
Holy Heisenberg, he thought twiddling his thumbs. She actually wants to...do it? I mean, yeah we've done a lot already but still...to go so far.
Again he looked around nervously before the sound of footsteps coming down the stairs made him freeze up. She says she's ready, Jimmy continued to himself. But am I ready to take this huge step in our relationship?
The word relationship remained in Jimmy's mind for a few more seconds, what kind of relationship were they even in? Cindy already told them she wasn't 'in love', so exactly what were they even doing? Just fooling around to satisfy their hormones? That sounded more along the lines of 'friends with benefits', and that wasn't what Jimmy wanted with her, he wanted so much more than that. It's becoming pretty apparent that I'm in love with Cindy, he thought. Which, when you think about it, isn't at all surprising. After all we've been through, it'd be crazy not to be in love with her. Once again, he found himself looking around the street, only this time he was grinning slightly. All that's left to do is tell her, and tonight is the perfect chance.
Perfect it was. They'd be giving themselves to each other for the first time tonight, what better moment than that to confess to the girl you've had strong feelings for? It was all going to be perfect. Finally the door opened and Jimmy's smile grew bigger as his long time 'rival' stood in front of him. He took in her choice of clothing, small white t-shirt that showed her stomach and underwear. The nervousness was back as Jimmy stared at the almost nude blushing blonde girl before him.
"Right on time," she told him, her face slightly red. "I hope you showered before coming here."
"O-Of course." Jimmy also felt a blush creep up on his face. "By the way, um, I brought some...protection, in case you were wondering."
Cindy's blush got deeper as she turned away from him. "Y-Yeah, we definitely need that..." She stepped aside. "You can come in now."
Jimmy nodded and stepped into the Vortex household, now that he thought about it, this was the first time he was in a different room besides Cindy's. "Upstairs," Cindy ordered obviously trying to keep her composure. "Sit on the bed, don't touch anything until I get in there."
Jimmy could only give a hurried nod as he scrambled up the stairs and into Cindy's room. He sat down on her comfortable fluffy bed and nervously started twiddling her thumbs again. This is where Cindy sleeps, he thought to himself. Right on this bed...barely wearing any clothes. Jimmy looked down at her large pillow, flopping on her bed and burying his face in it while making sure to take a long wiff. "Ahh, smells just like Cindy," he sighed to himself. "That sweet tantalizing scent." He took another big wiff before he heard a small giggling noise behind him.
"Glad that my smell is to your liking, Neutron." Cindy, who still looked a bit red, smirked.
"Uhh, is there a chance you'll forget that happened?"
"Not on your life," Cindy smirked before plopping down next to him. "So...best we get started now."
"Mmhm."
The two didn't make any movements for a while, just sitting there staring at each other, waiting for one of them to make the first move. "J-Jimmy, maybe we should just start like we normally do," Cindy suggested.
The boy genius nodded and brought a hand up to her cheek, he stared at her for a few seconds before leaning in and bringing his lips to hers. It was a simple little kiss at first, but as the seconds went on it began to evolve, and as it did the two teenagers started getting more physical with each other. Eventually, tongues were added into the mix soon followed by female moans that filled the otherwise silent room. Hands from both parties rubbed and squeezed various parts of the body while clothing was being tossed aside and virtually forgotten.
"Whoa," Jimmy's eyes were now staring dead at the only part of Cindy he'd never ever seen before in his life. "Um...c-can I touch it?"
"Please do..." Cindy practically begged spreading her legs slightly.
Jimmy never thought he'd see Cindy writhe so much while making noises that got him extremely aroused. The feeling on Jimmy's fingers was like nothing he'd ever felt before, it amazed and intrigued him as if he were dealing with one of his own experiments or inventions. "D-Damn it Jimmy, stop teasing me," Cindy moaned arching her back a bit. "Fuck...I can't hold back anymore...Jimmy, I want it now..."
Jimmy watched her toes curl as she started writhing more, he then took in a breath and stopped touching her, realizing that the moment of truth was upon them. "O-Okay," he said crawling over top of her. "Um, how do I go about this?"
Cindy let out a low growl and rolled her eyes impatiently. "God damn it Jimmy, it's not rocket science," she told him. "Penis goes into vagina, that's all there is to it."
Jimmy chuckled, feeling slightly embarrassed, and got into a more comfortable position. This is it, he thought to himself. All I have to do is move slightly and hello to manhood.
"I can't believe we're really doing this," Jimmy said with a happy smile on his face. "I love you so much Cindy."
Cindy's eyes shot wide open after hearing Jimmy's confession. "W-What did you say?"
"I-I love you," Jimmy repeated in a lot more reserved tone. "I have for a while now, we've spent so much time together it's all I know now." He leaned forward and gave her a loving kiss on her mouth, he waited for her to kiss back but she just remained there frozen in place like a statue. "Cindy? Is something wrong?"
"You're serious..." Cindy covered her face with her hand and started chuckling. The chuckling turned into laughter, and not the 'I'm so happy' laughter, no this sounded like some kind of sick sadistic laughter, one that kind of startled the boy genius.
"UN-fucking-believable." Cindy laughed. "You really are serious? You've just all the sudden magically fallen in love with me of all people? You're really something ya know. What happened to your dream-girl Betty?"
Jimmy was rather confused right now, this is definitely not how he expected his long and thought out confession to go. "Cindy, you know I don't like Betty like that anymore," he told her. "What's the matter with you?"
"What's the matter with me? What the hell's the matter with you?" Cindy shot back. "I'm not the one who's interrupting what was supposed to be a good time with some crazy talk about love."
"It's not crazy talk!" Jimmy glared at her. "Cindy, this is the honest-to-Einstein truth! I didn't understand it myself at first, but every time I'm with you m-my heart starts to beat at much faster, I-I tend to sweat more than average, and I can't even enunciate my words properly."
"Sounds like you're crazy to me," Cindy mumbled. "I just wanted this to be strictly no strings attached, but you just had to go and ruin it."
"I thought you said you liked me."
"Yeah, I'm attracted to you," Cindy let out another sadistic laugh. "But I'm not in love with you or something silly like that, didn't we already have this conversation about 'love'?" Cindy started laughing again making Jimmy's anger begin to boil. He knew she could be mean at times, sometimes even down right cruel, but he'd always dismissed it as something harmless, it was just her personality. Not this time, no, she was being downright evil this time.
"Anyway," Cindy wiped a tear from her eye. "Let's just get back to...Neutron what are you doing?"
"Going home," Jimmy spat.
"Aw come on," Cindy giggled. "Don't be a poor sport, we can still have fun."
Jimmy didn't say anything, just pulled his pants back on and grabbed the rest of his clothes. Before he could head to the door he felt Cindy snake her arms around his waist and press her naked body against his back. "Awww, did I hurt your feelings?" she joked stroking his cheek. "I'm sorry, let me make it up to y-"
"Don't touch me."
"Neutron, you're being really unreasonable right now..."
"I said get off!" He ripped Cindy's arms off his waist and turned to look at her.
"What the...what crawled up your ass?!" The bitchy Cindy was back now.
"Are you serious right now? You just...!" Jimmy shook his head. "You know what? Fuck you Cindy. Just...fuck you."
"Jimmy I-"
"You stay away from me," Jimmy quickly wiped the tears that were threatening to come down his face. "I don't want you anywhere near me, ever."
"Fine!" Cindy yelled after him as he stormed out of the room. "You don't wanna do it with me? Screw you then! I'll find someone else, Nerdtron! It's your loss!"
Jimmy just kept on walking until he reached the front of his house, he thought about going in but decided against it when he felt a few tears roll down his eyes. "Fuck," he growled covering his eyes with his hand. "Fuck!"
Jimmy sighed and leaned back in his chair propping his feet on the desk. "That's pretty much how it happened," he told the three girls in front of him. "Ha, I can't believe I actually cried that night." Jimmy turned to look at them and was surprised to see Betty and Britney sniffling and wiping their tears away with a hankerchief.
"Oh Jimmy, that's so sad!" Britney wailed.
"I'm on your side now!" Betty told him.
Libby, making sure to wipe the small tear in one of her eyes, shook her head and stood up. "Wow," she spoke. "I'll admit, I was kinda half expecting it to be another petty argument. Cindy may be like a sister to me, but damn I didn't think she was capable of that. What a bitch..."
"And it's so obvious that she loved you," Betty spoke once she'd cleared all her tears. "I mean, Cindy's kinda harsh sometimes but I've seen her reject guys before and she's never been that cruel. She was definitely hiding something."
"Well, I didn't know that at the time," Jimmy grinned to himself. "I actually hated her for quite a bit after that night, if I knew the truth like I do now, I never would have given up in the first place."
"So you're not giving up? Even now?"
"Of course not," Jimmy smirked. "This time I'm going to keep trying, even if I have to do it for the rest of my life."
Libby gave a broad smile nodded, standing up straight. "Alright, now that we know what happened," she began. "It's time we put the plan in action."
"You have a plan?"
"Yup," Britney piped up handing him an envelope. "This is part of it."
Jimmy arched an eyebrow in confusion and tore open the envelope, revealing two tickets that had 'Retroville High School Senior Prom' on it.
"Prom tickets?" Jimmy asked incredulously. He hadn't really been planning on going, mainly because he had no one to go with. "I thought these were already sold out."
"Come on Jimmy, we're on the Student Council," Betty laughed. "We can get whatever we want, whenever we want it. Getting extra tickets was a snap."
"So you want me to ask Cindy to the prom?"
"Nope, Cindy has to be there regardless, being president and all." Libby explained. "Those tickets are for you and Vox."
"Wha?" Jimmy looked at the three girls. "So I'm supposed to go to the prom with Vox but try to get Cindy to admit she's in love with me? Isn't this what got me in trouble in the first place?"
"It's not what you think, Master." suddenly hearing Vox's voice made Jimmy startled Jimmy.
"Vox? H-How long have you been there?" Jimmy took a closer look at her. "And what in Newton's name happened to your face?!"
"I assume she had a 'talk' with Cindy, am I right?" Britney asked to which Vox chuckled slightly.
"Yes we talked for a bit," she admitted. "Then I ended up slapping her in the face and this is the result of that."
"I told you it was a bad idea to 'talk' to her," Libby spoke. "Especially by yourself."
"That girl," Betty sighed digging in her purse for some bandages. "Why does she have to be so violent?"
"It is alright," Vox assured the others. "I believe that confrontation was necessary, for the both of us. It allowed me to relieve all of my pent up anger I had toward her, and I'm sure she felt the same. Besides, I believe I put up a good fight, I am not the only one who looks this way after all."
"You go girl."
Jimmy took the bandages from Betty and began to tend to the cuts and bruises on her face. "You shouldn't go around picking fights," Jimmy told her sternly. "Especially with the likes of Cindy."
"I apologize Master..."
"It's alright, Vox."
"No, you do not understand." Vox said. "I'm not apologizing for what just happened, I mean everything that I have done so far. I-"
"Enough," Jimmy told her kindly. "You don't need to apologize, if anything it's me that should be on my knees right now, begging for your forgiveness. I led you on like that because of my selfishness, because I was afraid to lose one of you. So I don't want you to apologize to me, and I don't expect you to really forgive what I did."
Vox smiled and brought her hand to her creators cheek, stroking it softly. "Of course I forgive you," she told him. "If I hadn't, I would not be here willing to help you rebuild your relations with Miss Cindy." Jimmy smiled back and pulled her into a strong friendly hug.
"Alright, that's enough making up, we'll end up being here all day," Libby clapped her hands together. "Don't we have something to go over?"
"Right, your plan," Jimmy spoke. "Mind informing me in on it, since I'm the only one that doesn't know."
"Alright, don't be impatient," Libby smirked and pulled up a chair. "It's a real simple and easy plan...that may end with Cindy hating all of us forever."
Jimmy nodded understandingly. "I'm all ears."
"Fuuuuuck!"
"Cynthia, would you please stop your squirming? You're only making it worse, and watch your mouth young lady."
"Well if you were a little gentler, Mother, then I wouldn't move so much. Ow! God damn it!"
"Cynthia!"
"Sorry."
Sasha Vortex rolled her eyes and continued dabbing the cotton ball on her cut lip. "Cynthia Aurora Vortex, I just don't understand you sometimes," she spoke. "I had thought we moved past this 'fighting' phase of yours."
"Well she started it." Cindy whined like a toddler. "She hit me first, twice."
"I don't care who started it," Sasha spoke as if she were talking to a child. "You are an eighteen-year-old woman, and a Vortex at that, unless you are in one of your martial arts matches, you should not be fighting with anyone. God, just look at your face, this is almost as bad as the time that girl chipped your t-"
"Let's not bring that back up again," Cindy rolled her eyes. "I won't get into any fights anymore, Mother."
"That's what you said last time," Sasha sighed. "At least tell me you weren't fighting over something frivolous, like a boy."
Cindy nervously laughed. "W-Well about that..."
"Oh for heaven's sake, Cynthia," Sasha shook her head. "What's the use in fighting over that Neutron boy when you should know by now that he's already yours? I swear, I have no idea where you get that jealousy trait of yours from."
"Hey! I just...wait, how did you know it was Neutron?"
"Who doesn't?" Sasha asked. "Honestly, by now the whole town is just waiting for their invitations to the wedding." Cindy sat there with her mouth hanging open until Sasha used her index finger to shut it. "Don't leave your mouth open, it's not becoming of a lady."
"S-So you know that I lo...that Jimmy likes me, and you're fine with it?" Cindy asked. "I thought you hated him."
Sasha gave a slight shrug and began tending to Cindy's black eye. "I admit, I'm not the boy's biggest fan," she began. "But as far as a relationship partner, I must say he's a pretty good choice for you. Lord knows the boy is amazingly gifted and will be something great in the near future, not to mentions he's got the looks and the charm, yes he is a good fit for you Cynthia. It also helps that you love him."
Cindy let out a loud groan and tossed her head back. "Great, now even my own mother is drinking the kool-aid," she complained. "Why does it seem that everyone's life mission is to get me and Jimmy together?"
"Because, when one of you is too stubborn enough to realize her own feelings, she deserves a little push," Sasha explained. "The boy makes you happy, and that's what a mother wants of her only child."
Great, one of the few times we actually share a heartwarming mother/daughter moment, it just HAS to be about Jimmy, Cindy thought. "Well I don't love him, sorry about your luck."
"Nonsense," Sasha seemed rather aloof about all this. "The feelings you harbor for that boy are so obvious your grandfather knows about it, and he's got Alzheimer's."
"What makes you so sure about these 'feelings'?"
Sasha arched an eyebrow before giving her daughter an all-knowing smirk. "Do you think I'm deaf?" she asked. "Despite your best efforts to keep quiet, I can hear you when you call the boy's name out in your room...alone...with your hand in your-"
"M-Mom!" Cindy blushed as her mother chuckled slightly. "I don't...I mean I'm not thinking about him during..."
Cindy, defeated and embarrassed, bolted up toward her room leaving her mother still laughing downstairs. She plopped down on her bed and buried her face into her pillow. "Tomorrow I'm going to ask the mayor to get me soundproof walls," Cindy declared. She fell silent for a little bit and thought to herself.
Why does everyone, even my own mother, care so much about our relationship? She thought. Jeez, small-town people have nothing better to do than to meddle into teenager's love lives.
Love.
Exactly what did that word even mean to her? She honestly didn't believe in it at first, and took it as nothing more than a human virus of some sort, something that weakens others into depending on someone else, something that she swore to never do.
Until he came into my life, she thought. Now here I am going bat-shit crazy because I'm too much of a goddamn coward to throw away my stupid pride and admit the truth. She groaned loudly into the pillow. I want to be with him. I want to be able to wake up everyday and tell him how I feel. I want to greet him with kisses and hugs and all that other mushy bull shit everyday. I want...I want him. Right now in fact.
She shook her head trying to clear the dirty thoughts in her mind, however her imagination was already far too gone as she looked down at her bed. "Even though it was three years ago," she dove her nose into her bed and sniffed. "I can still smell him on my bed...his naked body was right here at one time."
Christ, I'm such a creepy horny loser, she berated herself. Why the hell am I thinking about 15-year-old naked Jimmy?
"Because I haven't seen 18-year-old naked Jimmy...yet." She added.
Before she could begin to fantasize about him, she felt her cellphone vibrate on her bed seeing that she'd received a text from Libby. "Ready for prom this weekend?" she read. "Oh right, I do have to show up don't I? Tch, what's the goddamned point if I don't even have a date?" She pondered Jimmy for a second, but dismissed it soon after knowing full well that she was the last person he wanted to see right now. "Besides, Jimmy isn't the dancing type, that's for sure."
She sent Libby back a generic response and flopped backwards on her bed, staring up at the ceiling. "He hasn't tried to speak to me in two weeks," she sighed. "Not that I blame him, heck I'd avoid the person that rejected me and broke my arm." She turned on her side. "I have to definitely apologize. Make it up to him somehow."
Her mind soon headed back into the gutter before another vibrating sensations snapped her out of it. Cindy rolled her eyes and looked at the text message from Libby. "Jimmy's going to prom?" she was geniunely surprised, but she surely knew he wasn't going alone. "I wonder who he's taking?" The moment she asked herself the question an answer that scared the hell out of her entered her head, and before she even had the chance to ask for confirmation, the next message Libby sent gave her the answer.
"He's taking Vox?!"
A/N: Don't ask me why I made Cindy into a pervert, because even I don't know why I did it LOL. And it was rather difficult trying to write that little J/N scene while keeping it rated T. Anyway, sorry for the delayed update (I was kinda holding out to see if I'd reach 100 reviews before this next chapter :P) and I hope you all continue to enjoy. Until next time.
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