The gang, minus Mikey, met up in front at the lockers, and then walked through the hallways, heading to the schoolyard. Suddenly, they noticed a disgusting smell in the air.
"What the hell is this smell?" Vince asked while the gang held their nose.
"That's the smell of hydrogen sulfide," Gretchen said.
"Hydro what?" Spinelli asked.
"It's a gas, created by the body when its digesting food containing sulfur, like beans," Gretchen answered. Vince started to laugh. "So it's a fart?" he asked, not knowing that Mikey rushed to the toilet during English class.
Vince noticed the sudden worryingly looks on his friend's faces. "Is everything al—" he was interrupted by TJ yelling, "We need to go to the toilet, NOW!"
As the five ran to the toilets, Spinelli noticed the increasingly disgusting smell. Holy crap, its like rotten eggs but worse.
When they arrived at the toilets, Spinelli started to gag uncontrollably. There was a little bit of fecal matter in front of the boy's toilet door. Spinelli sighed in relief because she knew that girls were not allowed to enter the boys' toilet.
TJ, Gus, and Vince held their nose closed as they entered the toilet. Spinelli and Gretchen pressed their ears against the door and listened.
Someone knocked on one of the toilet stalls. It was TJ's voice, asking, "Are you in there, Mikey?"
Spinelli heard a muffled voice, "Go away!" That is definitely Mikey.
"C'mon, Mikey, open the door!" TJ ordered.
"What have I become?" Mikey cried out.
Spinelli could hear the sob in his voice, which made her clench her jaw. "Should we go in?" she asked, but Gretchen just shook her head.
For a while, there was silence inside the toilet before TJ said, "Uh, I think we need some help here," his voice was shaky.
"I guess we need to ask Spinelli," Vince suggested, which made Spinelli nervously tap her feet on the floor.
"No way I'm gonna let her see that!" TJ protested.
"Why the hell? One more person and we can lift him off the toilet, or do you wanna call the fire department?" Vince screamed.
Gus interrupted. "We need to bring him to the nurse!" he yelled.
Mikey's sobs became loud cries, and Spinelli slammed her fist on the wall. They need help! But don't wanna go in there, Spinelli screamed in her thoughts.
Pacing forth and back, Spinelli had enough. She angrily stomped to the toilet door and yanked the door open as fast as she could. Her anger changed to disbelief, and her mouth slowly gaped open at the scene in front of her.
There was a line of brown liquid on the floor, which led to a toilet stall. TJ and Vince were standing in front of it, each of one grabbing one of Mikey's hands.
Spinelli wondered, If TJ and Vince are there, then Gus must be inside the stall with Mikey.
With each step closer, the smell was becoming more and more unbearable, and the intensity of Spinelli's gag reflex increased.
Spinelli was right; Gus was inside the stall with Mikey, trying to push him out of the toilet, using his legs. God damned, they have shit all over their clothes, Spinelli thought, as she grabbed Mikey's right arm.
While using all her strength to lift him off the toilet, Spinelli had a question, "Why can't he just stand up?"
"I don't know, he was passed out when we found him," Gus yelled, his voice was shaky, full of panic.
"I guess he is just too weak right now," TJ remarked.
Despite Spinelli almost passing out because of the smell, the four managed to help Mikey stand up. Unfortunately, he was still too weak to walk, so he rested most of his body weight on his friend's shoulders.
His right arm rested on Spinelli and TJ, while his left was on Vince and poor Gus, who seemed to be out of breath already. Everyone in the school already heard about what happened at the toilet, and a crowd formed around the gang.
Spinelli had a problem, a big one. Mikey's hand, which was hanging near Spinelli's face, had a shit stain on it. Every time she tried to breathe in, she gagged. It didn't help that her muscles already consumed all the oxygen in her body. Spinelli's lungs began to burn, and her ears rang. Her vision narrowed, and her knees started to tremble. Eventually, the lack of oxygen was too much, Spinelli collapsed, screaming in panic, "Shit! Am I gonna die now?" Before she could hit the ground, something grabbed her. It was two arms around her chest, slowing down the fall. The last thing Spinelli saw was Mikey, landing beside her. He had poop on his face, and Spinelli couldn't believe it, he is smiling!