In this chapter, Jessica will get into her first fight. Instead of the bullies, she'll be facing the nerds. I figure I would make them the starter antagonists.
Luckily, Jess is stronger than she looks. She could give Jimmy a run for his money.
Chapter 2: Peeping Toms
Clarence Harrington greatly resembled his son Derby, but he had six fingers on each of his hands. That was a side effect of inbreeding. Though compared to some of his cousins, it was rather mild.
Though he was surprising handsome for someone who was born through inbreeding.
Perhaps the preps were simply lucky that way...much like they were lucky to have so much money. They were more fortunate than the greasers, that was for sure.
He also had a yellow beard, and he was the richest man in town.
He had a brief chat with Crabblesnitch.
Clarence offered him beer, but Crabblesnitch reminded him that he had prohibited drinking at the school.
The principal got the feeling it hadn't stopped Mr. Galloway though. His breath smelled funny. Or at least used to. Perhaps if he drank in the past, he had stopped now.
As a side note, he wondered if Clarence was a hypocrite like Hattrick was. The staff said that firing him was one of the best decisions that he had made. But perhaps he had simply forgotten about the no alcohol rule.
The former prefect felt uneasy after his meeting with Clarence Harrington.
There was something creepy about that man.
Derby didn't mind him though. Perhaps because he had been living with him for some time.
Fortunately, all he seemed to wish to talk about was the weather. It was sunny today. Nice and warm.
Perhaps he wouldn't be cutting the school's funding. It seemed Clarence thought money was the most important thing in the world, except for perhaps his son.
He gave Crabblesnitch a pat on the back.
Still, the doctor figured he should stay on Clarence's good side.
Seeing the man made everyone at school feel uneasy.
Shortly afterwards, the nerds decided to do something bad.
"You know, Jessica is awfully hot. We should totally watch her while she's in the shower." noted Thad.
"Good idea." agreed Fatty.
They secretly planted a camera in the stall.
They also shut off the water for each shower except for the one with the camera.
Though they were feeling lucky after they successfully beat the jocks at basketball.
Jessica came in a few minutes later.
"That's weird, this seems to be the only shower that works." noted Jessica.
Perhaps she should talk to whoever installed the showers.
Oddly enough, she thought she heard chuckling.
But the shower she had was great.
However, it would not be long before Jessica found out about the camera.
She had just finished her shower when she noticed it.
"Is that a camera?!" exclaimed Jessica.
She punched the camera and shattered the lens.
"Who would do such a perverted thing?" asked the girl.
As she put on a towel, she thought about who could be responsible.
She doubted it was Mr. Burton.
While it seemed like something he would do (and he used to work at the gym), she knew that Mr. Burton was gone.
Perhaps he had joined the hoboes that were living in Bullworth.
She's not sure who would hire him after what he had done, so it wouldn't be surprising. Jessica knew she wouldn't hire him if she worked as a manager.
So who else could it be?
It then occurred to her that perhaps it was the nerds who were responsible for this pervertedness.
It seemed that they had been interested in her body from her time with them.
She decided that she would have a chat with them.
Jessica found them at the library.
They were playing Grottos and Gremlins.
Algie rolled the dice.
He got a natural 20.
Happy at his success, he raised his hand in the air.
"Alright! We totally slew the dragon!" exclaimed Algie.
"We sure did!" nodded Melvin.
Their mothers would be so proud.
Suddenly, Jess approached them.
"Oh, hey, Jess! Um, did you have a bad day?" greeted Algie.
"Did you spy on me while in the shower?" asked Jess.
Thad chuckled nervously.
Immediately, she slapped him in the face.
He cried and ran to the boys' dorm.
"I didn't slap him too hard, did I?" asked Jessica. Perhaps the nerds simply had a low tolerance for pain.
She tried to be patient with the school cliques.
Though having said, they were starting to wear her patience.
"He made Thad cry! Let's get her!" exclaimed Melvin, pointing at the girl.
"Uh-oh." remarked the girl. It looked as if she had made the nerds angry.
Fortunately, she was able to defend herself despite her lack of combat experience.
Perhaps she had inherited her father's genes that allowed him to excel at gym at school.
Though it helped that the nerds gave up easily...and they weren't prepared for a fight. Having combat experience in Grottos and Gremlins wasn't the same as having combat experience in real life.
Though to be fair, Grottos and Gremlins encouraged people to achieve their goals...like becoming musclemen.
As soon as Fatty received a wedgie, he broke down crying.
Though to be fair, it wasn't the first time. Jocks did it to him all the time. Seemed fat people were acceptable targets to them...because they weren't fit.
"You wouldn't punch a boy with glasses on, would you?" asked Bucky.
Jessica took the glasses off his face, then punched him.
Bucky went to cry in a corner.
But at least his glasses weren't broken.
Glasses didn't grow on trees.
After seeing his comrades were defeated (or didn't want to continue the fight, anyway), Algie decided to surrender.
"Don't hurt me please!" exclaimed the fat boy who dressed in green, waving his hands in front of his face.
He had nothing to do with the camera, though he found Jessica attractive like the rest of the nerds.
"You're the kid who wets his pants, are you not?" asked the girl.
Algie nodded...though he wasn't proud of it. The jocks teased him mercilessly about it. It made him reconsider taking his education at Bullworth. He didn't want to say goodbye to his nerd friends though.
He went on his knees and begged for forgiveness.
"I'll cut you some slack." noted Jessica.
The bed wetter sighed in relief. It looked for once he wouldn't be wetting himself.
Zoe showed up shortly afterwards.
She has heard what's going on.
It always amused her whenever there was fighting at school.
Though she agreed with Jimmy that the fighting had gotten out of hand when Gary took over. It was an all-out war.
Who would have thought that one boy could make Bullworth suck so bad.
"Bravo!" exclaimed Zoe, applauding Jessica. In her opinion, those nerds had it coming. She knew what she would do if she caught them spying on her in the shower.
She had seen one staring at her chest. They reminded her a bit of Mr. Burton...only without the physique.
"I don't get it...they seemed so nice earlier." noted Jessica.
What had gotten into them?
Zoe concluded what happened.
"There's something about Derby's father...he has this aura around him that causes people to act badly." noted the former Townie.
Fortunately, it only seemed to have impacted the nerds.
And Clarence had already left.
Perhaps he was watching TV smoking cigars.
But if he showed up at school again, other cliques could be affected.
And Jessica probably didn't want to make enemies with the jocks. Fighting them was like fighting a bear. Only without the claws.
"Either way, I don't think you've seen the last of the nerds." noted the girl.
"Then I guess I better be ready for them." answered Jessica.
So far, fighting them had been easy.
But things might change.
"Although, I probably would have beaten them up from the get go." noted Zoe Taylor. She would have done more than slap Thad in the face, at least.
"Yeah...I'm more of a self-defense kind of person." remarked Jessica.
Meanwhile, Pete noticed what happened to the nerds.
It looked like they had gotten into a fight...and had lost badly.
"Did Jimmy do this to you?" asked the head boy. He hadn't been seeing him too much after he beat up Gary.
The only people he knew that would take on entire groups of nerds at once were the jocks, and they had agreed to make a truce with them following the basketball game.
It wouldn't last long, but Pete knew that Ted was a jock of his word.
"No...it was the blonde girl...she was huge and strong..." noted Melvin.
Pete imagined this girl was scary...unaware as to the fact that she was beautiful...which was why the nerds had pestered her in the first place.
"Huh. I guess Jimmy isn't the only tough kid at school." remarked the head boy. Considering that the nerds no longer provoked Jimmy, it seemed likely that he was innocent as well.
He would like to meet this girl...though hopefully she has a good reason for beating up the nerds. He remembered the days Russell picked on defenseless kids. He didn't do that anymore though.
"I wonder where Jimmy is, anyway..." remarked Pete.
As it turned out, Jimmy was at the carnival.
He did well at test your strength.
After wrestling with the jocks, he had strong muscles.
"Yes!" cheered the boy.
Now he could get one of the prizes.
The prize he wanted was a monkey doll.
Which was ironic, considering nobody made a monkey out of Jimmy Hopkins. The bullies at school had learned the hard way.
Well, he could put it in his room with the rest.
He no longer stayed at the boys' dorm in Bullworth Academy (as he had graduated from all the classes), but Crabblesnitch allowed him to visit whenever he wished.
He had done the school a great service, after all.
At geography class...
"Oh oh, this is my achilles heel." noted Jessica.
She just couldn't seem to remember where the states are.
But on the lighter side, the teacher was helpful.
Perhaps if she studied the maps she would get a passing grade.
She could only hope.
At the gym...
"Did you hear about what happened to the nerds?" asked Damon.
"Yeah...I think they had it coming." answered Mandy.
Now that she thought of it, she got the feeling that they were the ones who had pasted lewd pictures of her throughout town.
Personally she thought that they should know better than to mess with a member of her clique.
She wondered if Jimmy did it.
She thought he was a dreamboat...but she wasn't going to fight Zoe over him.
Besides, she got the feeling that he was the one that had taken the lewd pictures of her and had given it to the nerds. He seemed to regret his decision though.
At the girls' dorm...
"For some reason last year all the cliques only seem to have one female member." noted Jessica.
The exception seemed to be the bullies, which had no female members.
"I know. But that might be subject to change this year." noted Zoe.
"Hmm?" asked Jessica.
"I heard that Pinky is taking over the preppies." answered the former townie.
Jessica was interested.
"Derby has become a prefect. Seems his father thought that would be a good idea." answered Zoe.
"But he's so full of himself." remarked the blonde girl.
"Well, I wonder where Pinky will take the preppies." noted the redheaded girl.
The townies used to think the preps were a bunch of snobs...but then again, they used to hate all the cliques equally.
Perhaps Pinky will come up with plans to make the greasers' lives miserable.
Meanwhile...
"So, do you have sexy footage of Jessica?" asked Earnest.
He had heard about her and how she had helped the nerds win the basketball game.
Hopefully it was worth waiting for them to return to the library.
"About that...we got busted." explained Thad.
Seemed they hadn't hidden the camera too well.
At least Ms. Peabody didn't know what they had done.
"She's playing hard to get, isn't she? Well then, we'll just go into her room and make off with her underwear." remarked Earnest.
He wasn't the kind of boy who would give up easily. After all, he hadn't withdrawn from Bullworth despite the animosity the jocks and the nerds shared. Besides, things had gotten calmer ever since Jimmy took control of the cliques.
Earnest's men nodded.
Beatrice probably wouldn't approve of that though. She stayed at the girls' dorm along with all the other Bullworth girls. She didn't get along with Mandy though. How she envied her popularity.
But to be honest, while Beatrice shared his intellect, he liked Jessica more.
Immediately, he sent out the nerds to do his dirty work.
Earnest rubbed his hands together.
Unfortunately, Jessica has not seen the last of the nerds. I figured her beauty wouldn't solely be a blessing.
As a side note, you've probably noticed Jessica isn't aggressive as Jimmy is. As I said, she's his foil. Just as she is a foil to her roommate.