Chapter 2: First School Day
By Monday morning, things where going great with Jenny. Jimmy told her about his inventions, except the girl-eating-plant, of course. And the two seemed to be getting along like brother and sister. But Jenny still hadn't met anyone in Retroville, they had found plenty of games and conversations to come upon they nearly forgot there was an outside. Jenny was prepared for the morning fully and was early for breakfast, Jimmy came down quite a little bit later, naturally.
Soon the bus pulled around the corner down Jimmy's street, they said good bye to Judy and Hugh and walked out of the house, just in time for the bus, when they entered the bus, not a word was said. Everyone was staring at Jenny. Libby had even taken her headphones off from her CD player to pay attention. Jenny looked around oddly.
"Gosh Jimmy, these kids are kind of boring," She whispered jokingly.
Jimmy simply smiled at everyone's jaw opened mouths, apparently then thought Jenny was really pretty, that and they had obviously never seen her before.
Carl and Sheen scooted over much more than usual to let both Jimmy and Jenny sit down.
A least a minute must have passed, and the bus in motion again before everyone started into an abrupt load of curious conversation.
It must have taken Sheen and Carl forever to come up with what to say.
"So, Jimmy, how was your weekend?" Asked Carl, rather more shyer than usual.
"Great Carl, and yours?" Jimmy replied, glad his friends finally broke the ice.
"Not bad." Carl replied unsurely.
Sheen finally asked, "So, who's the girl?"
Jenny smiled, "I'm Jimmy's cousin Jenny, I'll be staying here and going to your school for a few, uh … months or so."
Carl and Sheen sighed in relief, Jimmy wasn't sure that it was because that where glad they had finally asked, or glad that she wasn't some new girlfriend or something.
"So, where are you from?" Asked Carl.
"I'm from Newport Beach, California," Jenny answered, glad that at least a fairly real conversation was starting to pick up, even though they where almost to school.
Suddenly, a surprise voice entered the conversation, "Newport beach huh? Pretty cool. My names Cindy Vortex, nice to meet at least one civilized Neutron." Cindy said from a seat across the walk way, she extended a hand for Jenny to shake.
Jenny shook it and gave a little laugh, "Nice to meet you too Cindy."
Cindy smiled as she took her hand back, "I guess I'll be seeing you around, seeing as I live across the street from the nerd, and I'm in his class."
Jenny smiled, "Cool."
The bus came to a stop, and people where now acting a little more normal, although most of them allowed Jimmy and Jenny to go out first. Jimmy, Sheen and Carl took Jenny to Ms. Fowl's class.
Ms. Fowl showed Jenny to her new seat behind Jimmy (next to Cindy) and Jenny asked Ms. Fowl about her particularly interesting accent, Ms. Fowl had no clue what she meant, and Jenny just laughed slightly.
The day went by seemingly well, although most people stared at Jenny threw the whole day. Finally the lunch bell rang, and Jenny started a conversation with Cindy and Libby.
"You know how to do tai chi? That's so cool! I've done karate myself." Jenny told Cindy.
"Really? Well, I find tai chi more relaxing then karate, but then of course I have purple flurp so it really almost looks like karate." Cindy replied.
"You know what's really relaxing is yoga." Jenny told Cindy.
"You know, I've heard about it, but I've never considered trying it out." Cindy confessed.
"Hey, maybe sometime I could teach you." Jenny suggested.
"Really? That'd be cool!" Cindy replied.
Then there was the conversation with Libby.
"Oh, I totally love electronics! I always feel we've been born into the digital age!" Said Jenny to Libby.
"Me too! And I love music, just hand me a MP3 player, and I'll dash to the computer in a second!" Libby replied.
"Oh, I so agree!" Jenny continued.
Although Jimmy was happy Jenny was making friends, he felt a little uncomfortable that her new friends where Cindy and Libby, of course, she's a girl, so it's ok. But then the weirdest thing happened.
"Hi hot stuff," said a voice from behind Jenny.
Jenny slowly turned around from Cindy and Libby, she intended on ignoring the person, but seeing Cindy and Libby all fluttery and such, she decided to see who this person was.
Nick Dean.
Most girls turned into jelly from the moment they set eyes on Nick.
"What do you want?" Jenny asked, with no interest in Nick, whatsoever.
"Name's, Nick Dean, and I'm sure your pleased to meet me," Nick held her hand and was about to kiss it, but Jenny had fast reflexes and yanked her hand away before he kissed it.
"Whatever," She hissed annoyed.
Nick ignored this and continued to talk, "So what's your name, beautiful?"
Jenny crossed her arms in total disgust and replied, "Jenny Neutron, so what's it to ya?"
Nick smiled slyly, "Everything."
Jenny looked at Nick with a look that pretty much said 'Riiight'. Then she spun around back to Cindy and Libby.
"Speaking of 'Everything' one of my favorite music artist is Michelle Branch." She continued to ignore Nick Dean's presence.
Quick! Someone take a picture, or at least write this down! Jenny Neutron has just made history! The first girl ever to turn down Nick Dean! Someone call the press, we've got a story here! At least that's what Jimmy, Sheen, Carl and many other students where thinking. Probably the cutest girl in almost all the school, just turned down the coolest and hottest guy in probably all the school district!
Jenny could care less.
Later on, when everyone say down for lunch, everyone was still in awe. Cindy and Libby decided to sit with Jenny, even though she was also sitting with Jimmy, Carl and Sheen.
"You're the coolest girl I've ever met!" Said Jimmy.
Jenny's eye brow raised in surprise, "Why?"
Carl and Sheen looked at each other, then to Jenny.
"You turned down the coolest guy in school!" Carl continued for Jimmy.
Jenny rolled her eyes, "Who?"
Jimmy then said, as if he expected her to already know, "Nick Dean!"
Jenny stared at Jimmy, with a bit of confusion, "That dork is the coolest kid in school? Whatever!"
Cindy turned to Jenny, "You don't think he's cute?"
Jenny smiled at Cindy, "Looks aren't everything Cindy, remember that."
Cindy turned to Libby, Libby simply shrugged, but then said to Jenny, "I admire someone who stands up for herself."
Cindy nodded in agreement, and Jenny smiled and said, "Thanks."
Just then Nick Dean passed by, "Hey cutie."
Cindy, who still had a little crush on Nick Dean (although we all know she has a crush on Jimmy) though Nick was talking to her.
She gave her best smile, and nervously, but coolly, turned around, "Hi Nick."
Nick then said, "Not you Cindy, I'm talking to Miss Neutron."
Jenny, who had been eating soup, dropped her spoon, with mouth wide open, Jimmy at first thought she had fallen for Nick, but he was wrong, very wrong.
Jenny spun around, her precious smile and eyes where very angry. Eyes narrowed to a glare, and lips curled in a fit of anger, as Cindy looked shocked and quite heart broken, Jenny stood up.
"Listen Mr. Nick, I don't know who you think you are, but NO ONE hurts my friends feeling, and I mean no one. So, what do you want? My left-over cake? My fruit punch? What?" Jenny's eyes where no longer a happy green, but a sparking red, full of fire and anger. What a big mistake Nick made a second later.
"I want you." He said simply.
Jenny was outrageously annoyed, normally, she would have joked around sarcastically, but this guy didn't even know her, he was judging her looks, not her personality.
She grabbed his shirt neck collar and held him up close, and said seven words, "Don't you EVER say that to me again!"
And with that, she simply let go of him, he simply landed fairly softly on the floor, a bit shocked, and Jenny turned away, as if nothing had happened, her red with anger face was turning a soft white again, and her fireball red eyes turned into their pretty green color again, she sat down next to her friends, and went along talking as if nothing had happened.
By Monday morning, things where going great with Jenny. Jimmy told her about his inventions, except the girl-eating-plant, of course. And the two seemed to be getting along like brother and sister. But Jenny still hadn't met anyone in Retroville, they had found plenty of games and conversations to come upon they nearly forgot there was an outside. Jenny was prepared for the morning fully and was early for breakfast, Jimmy came down quite a little bit later, naturally.
Soon the bus pulled around the corner down Jimmy's street, they said good bye to Judy and Hugh and walked out of the house, just in time for the bus, when they entered the bus, not a word was said. Everyone was staring at Jenny. Libby had even taken her headphones off from her CD player to pay attention. Jenny looked around oddly.
"Gosh Jimmy, these kids are kind of boring," She whispered jokingly.
Jimmy simply smiled at everyone's jaw opened mouths, apparently then thought Jenny was really pretty, that and they had obviously never seen her before.
Carl and Sheen scooted over much more than usual to let both Jimmy and Jenny sit down.
A least a minute must have passed, and the bus in motion again before everyone started into an abrupt load of curious conversation.
It must have taken Sheen and Carl forever to come up with what to say.
"So, Jimmy, how was your weekend?" Asked Carl, rather more shyer than usual.
"Great Carl, and yours?" Jimmy replied, glad his friends finally broke the ice.
"Not bad." Carl replied unsurely.
Sheen finally asked, "So, who's the girl?"
Jenny smiled, "I'm Jimmy's cousin Jenny, I'll be staying here and going to your school for a few, uh … months or so."
Carl and Sheen sighed in relief, Jimmy wasn't sure that it was because that where glad they had finally asked, or glad that she wasn't some new girlfriend or something.
"So, where are you from?" Asked Carl.
"I'm from Newport Beach, California," Jenny answered, glad that at least a fairly real conversation was starting to pick up, even though they where almost to school.
Suddenly, a surprise voice entered the conversation, "Newport beach huh? Pretty cool. My names Cindy Vortex, nice to meet at least one civilized Neutron." Cindy said from a seat across the walk way, she extended a hand for Jenny to shake.
Jenny shook it and gave a little laugh, "Nice to meet you too Cindy."
Cindy smiled as she took her hand back, "I guess I'll be seeing you around, seeing as I live across the street from the nerd, and I'm in his class."
Jenny smiled, "Cool."
The bus came to a stop, and people where now acting a little more normal, although most of them allowed Jimmy and Jenny to go out first. Jimmy, Sheen and Carl took Jenny to Ms. Fowl's class.
Ms. Fowl showed Jenny to her new seat behind Jimmy (next to Cindy) and Jenny asked Ms. Fowl about her particularly interesting accent, Ms. Fowl had no clue what she meant, and Jenny just laughed slightly.
The day went by seemingly well, although most people stared at Jenny threw the whole day. Finally the lunch bell rang, and Jenny started a conversation with Cindy and Libby.
"You know how to do tai chi? That's so cool! I've done karate myself." Jenny told Cindy.
"Really? Well, I find tai chi more relaxing then karate, but then of course I have purple flurp so it really almost looks like karate." Cindy replied.
"You know what's really relaxing is yoga." Jenny told Cindy.
"You know, I've heard about it, but I've never considered trying it out." Cindy confessed.
"Hey, maybe sometime I could teach you." Jenny suggested.
"Really? That'd be cool!" Cindy replied.
Then there was the conversation with Libby.
"Oh, I totally love electronics! I always feel we've been born into the digital age!" Said Jenny to Libby.
"Me too! And I love music, just hand me a MP3 player, and I'll dash to the computer in a second!" Libby replied.
"Oh, I so agree!" Jenny continued.
Although Jimmy was happy Jenny was making friends, he felt a little uncomfortable that her new friends where Cindy and Libby, of course, she's a girl, so it's ok. But then the weirdest thing happened.
"Hi hot stuff," said a voice from behind Jenny.
Jenny slowly turned around from Cindy and Libby, she intended on ignoring the person, but seeing Cindy and Libby all fluttery and such, she decided to see who this person was.
Nick Dean.
Most girls turned into jelly from the moment they set eyes on Nick.
"What do you want?" Jenny asked, with no interest in Nick, whatsoever.
"Name's, Nick Dean, and I'm sure your pleased to meet me," Nick held her hand and was about to kiss it, but Jenny had fast reflexes and yanked her hand away before he kissed it.
"Whatever," She hissed annoyed.
Nick ignored this and continued to talk, "So what's your name, beautiful?"
Jenny crossed her arms in total disgust and replied, "Jenny Neutron, so what's it to ya?"
Nick smiled slyly, "Everything."
Jenny looked at Nick with a look that pretty much said 'Riiight'. Then she spun around back to Cindy and Libby.
"Speaking of 'Everything' one of my favorite music artist is Michelle Branch." She continued to ignore Nick Dean's presence.
Quick! Someone take a picture, or at least write this down! Jenny Neutron has just made history! The first girl ever to turn down Nick Dean! Someone call the press, we've got a story here! At least that's what Jimmy, Sheen, Carl and many other students where thinking. Probably the cutest girl in almost all the school, just turned down the coolest and hottest guy in probably all the school district!
Jenny could care less.
Later on, when everyone say down for lunch, everyone was still in awe. Cindy and Libby decided to sit with Jenny, even though she was also sitting with Jimmy, Carl and Sheen.
"You're the coolest girl I've ever met!" Said Jimmy.
Jenny's eye brow raised in surprise, "Why?"
Carl and Sheen looked at each other, then to Jenny.
"You turned down the coolest guy in school!" Carl continued for Jimmy.
Jenny rolled her eyes, "Who?"
Jimmy then said, as if he expected her to already know, "Nick Dean!"
Jenny stared at Jimmy, with a bit of confusion, "That dork is the coolest kid in school? Whatever!"
Cindy turned to Jenny, "You don't think he's cute?"
Jenny smiled at Cindy, "Looks aren't everything Cindy, remember that."
Cindy turned to Libby, Libby simply shrugged, but then said to Jenny, "I admire someone who stands up for herself."
Cindy nodded in agreement, and Jenny smiled and said, "Thanks."
Just then Nick Dean passed by, "Hey cutie."
Cindy, who still had a little crush on Nick Dean (although we all know she has a crush on Jimmy) though Nick was talking to her.
She gave her best smile, and nervously, but coolly, turned around, "Hi Nick."
Nick then said, "Not you Cindy, I'm talking to Miss Neutron."
Jenny, who had been eating soup, dropped her spoon, with mouth wide open, Jimmy at first thought she had fallen for Nick, but he was wrong, very wrong.
Jenny spun around, her precious smile and eyes where very angry. Eyes narrowed to a glare, and lips curled in a fit of anger, as Cindy looked shocked and quite heart broken, Jenny stood up.
"Listen Mr. Nick, I don't know who you think you are, but NO ONE hurts my friends feeling, and I mean no one. So, what do you want? My left-over cake? My fruit punch? What?" Jenny's eyes where no longer a happy green, but a sparking red, full of fire and anger. What a big mistake Nick made a second later.
"I want you." He said simply.
Jenny was outrageously annoyed, normally, she would have joked around sarcastically, but this guy didn't even know her, he was judging her looks, not her personality.
She grabbed his shirt neck collar and held him up close, and said seven words, "Don't you EVER say that to me again!"
And with that, she simply let go of him, he simply landed fairly softly on the floor, a bit shocked, and Jenny turned away, as if nothing had happened, her red with anger face was turning a soft white again, and her fireball red eyes turned into their pretty green color again, she sat down next to her friends, and went along talking as if nothing had happened.