20. Chapter 20

Recently, Jenny started having a new problem. It didn't seem especially serious though, but it was a little annoying. Her problem was Jason.

It used to be that he would rarely even look at her, but things have been different lately. During lunch period, on a daily basis, Jason would constantly bring back the subject of why she didn't punish the Krust's more severely. Only, he would do it indirectly. He would describe the situation in different ways each time, but would never use Jenny's or the Krust's names. After the first few days, everyone else had caught on to what he was really talking about, when they thought that what he was saying was only random nonsense at first.

Today, several people, including Jenny, were impatiently waiting for Jason to say something again. So far, after ten minutes passed, he said nothing.

Unable to continue waiting, Jenny finally said quite loudly "Well, let's hear it Jason."

"Hear what?" Jason asked.

"Aw, come on. You know very well what I'm talking about," Jenny said.

"Umm…I'm sorry, but I'm completely lost," Jason said.

Jenny clenched her right fist, growled, and then said "You've been doing it every day for four days now. You keep talking about the fact that I showed mercy to Brit and Tiff."

"I never said anything like that. I was just spouting random nonsense, that's all. Isn't that similar to what annoying little insects do. You know, fly around in crazy random directions aimlessly, irritating that hell out of anyone they come close to. Since I am only an annoying insect to you people, I figured you wouldn't really notice it much, and then try your best to ignore me," Jason explained.

Before Jenny was able to say anything, a male student said "Dude, cut the crap. We could see right through that pretty easily. Why are you trying to provoke her anyway? If you get her angry, she might do more damage than before."

"Hah, and you think you didn't just make her angrier with that she might do more damage than before comment?" Jason said.

The male student looked at Jenny and discovered that he did manage to make her angrier. He covered his mouth realizing that he shouldn't have said that.

"Before you make an argument, you might want to really think about what you're saying before you say it," Jason said.

"What kind of game are you playing anyway? Until that incident, you never said anything to me directly, and now all of a sudden you're so interested in me. Not only that, I used to actually admire you for the fact that you would stand up for people sometimes. What the hell happened to you anyway?" Jenny asked.

Jason put his milk carton down and said "Really? Stand up for people? Is that what you thought I was doing?"

"What?" Jenny asked with a confused expression.

"Well, I guess you can sort of say that's what I was doing. That was however, in no way, my primary intention. I like to call it indirect instigation. Now are you starting to get the picture? Give them a few ideas on how to exact their revenge and they might just do it. For me, it makes things more interesting, and I get to see my enemies beaten up without ever having to lift a finger. I'm pretty sure you heard me when I told the Krust cousins 'Oh, not much; just the fact that she's probably going to snap and kill you both one of these days' that day even though you were outside the cafeteria. I know you can here shit that we inferior humans can't," Jason said.

"You must've picked now to show this side of yourself, especially since none of the teachers happen to be around at the moment," Jenny pointed out.

"You're pretty smart. I'm surprised you noticed that. To tell you the truth, I normally don't give people the idea to kill their enemies, but I simply can't stand those damned Krusts," Jason said.

Jason pointed his finger at the Krusts and yelled "I don't hurt easily, but the things you've said to and about me were bad enough to make me want to see you two die in a rather gruesome fashion. I didn't kill you myself because I'd go to prison for it. So to let you know how I feel about you two, I hope you both get killed, and soon. Jenny might have shown you mercy, but if I had decided to fight you that day, I would have shown none. You don't deserve it."

Brit was speechless, but Tiff said "I see. Now you let us know. I've been waitin' for somebody to be that honest, but I didn't know it would take this long."

After a moment of silence Jason said "Hmm…it just seemed like you were going to say something else."

Both Brit and Tiff hung their heads down and Tiff said "Nope, that's it."

Another moment of silence passed, and then Jason said "And you Jenny, I know you want to see Brit dead. You said so yourself after all. In fact, I'm sure most of the people in this school want to see them dead as well. But no Jason, we're not like that. I know they said some messed up shit about us, but we don't want to actually see them die. Ha, don't make me laugh. I've seen the looks on your faces. It was the same look Jenny had when she attacked. It was the face of a cold-blooded killer that I saw each time. I wouldn't mistake that look for anything else."

At this point, Jenny's whole body was trembling with anger.

"You are trying your hardest not to attack me right now. I can tell. You're trying to salvage what little bit of popularity you have left. If you ask me, you don't really have any left, and you have virtually no chance of ever regaining it. Honestly, why do you care so much about something as stupid as popularity anyway? It's a great waste of time in my opinion," Jason said.

Jenny was even angrier now. She was angry at Jason, and in a way, she knew he was right about one thing; she most likely had no chance of ever regaining the little popularity she once earned.

Jenny opened her mouth to say something, but couldn't find the right words. After a little more than ten seconds of trying to think of something to say, she finally gave up and stomped her way out of the cafeteria with Brad following behind her.

A few seconds later, the male student from earlier stood up and said "Dude, I think you went way too far. What the fuck is wrong with you anyway?"

"I don't think I went far enough. She needs to understand reality a little better. She might appear as mature as some of us do, but her views on life are like that of young kid. She needs to realize that life isn't some happy little dream world. She needs to learn to accept the fact that she didn't have much of a chance of becoming popular in the first place. Her goal is unrealistic. She was just unfortunate enough to have been built in a time where intelligent robots are new and unusual things that humans just aren't ready for. New and unusual things are often hated and despised. That's the way it goes, doesn't it?" Jason asked rhetorically.

Jason got up and left the cafeteria as well. The other students remained speechless for a little while longer as they contemplated what Jason said.