Homecoming Scandal
By: CNJ
PG-13
9: Reunion Dance At Burkeview
Tammy:
Justin Belman came by to pick me up that Friday after Thanksgiving to head to the re-union dance at Burkeview High. "Hear that Jana and Randy are engaged?" I asked as we drove toward Burkeview.
"Yeah..."
"I always knew that they'd be the first in our class to wind up married. They've been joined at the hip since sixth grade," I told him. Justin laughed. We got there and spotted Matt Zeboski with some girl I didn't know. At first, because we were early, I didn't see many kids I knew, then eventually, I saw Lisa Snow, and Alexis Duvall with another girl I didn't know.
The music started and Justin and I did a few dances. I saw Melanie and Logan and waved. They waved back. Melanie was wearing a long ruffly pale pink gown and her hair was up in a tiny bun on top of her head with a few loose tendrils hanging down.
A few minutes later, I spotted the almost-married, Jana and Randy also. Jana's hair was pulled back in a loose bun in the back and I stifled a giggle when I saw that she was wearing what I thought was pink also, but once I got a closer look, I realized that her dress was a deep peach.
I'd heard that Jana and Melanie had a huge falling-out last summer and don't speak to each other now. I thought the night would be a little dull at first, but I noticed Logan looking over at Jana several times. I saw Keith over by the goodies table and he was looking over at Jana too! Oh...this was getting interesting.
Once when Randy and Jana stopped dancing to grab some punch and cookies, I saw Keith give Jana a flirty grin. I noticed Jana didn't take any cookies and whispered something to Randy, probably about being on some diet that she's usually on. Not that she ever needed to diet; she's model-skinny already. She'd even done some modeling for a calendar last year.
Randy then noticed Keith grinning at Jana and glared at Keith. Jana held out her hand, which had the ring and I heard Randy snarl something like, ...so back off... before Jana and Randy went out on the floor to dance again.
I noticed, however, that Jana and Logan's eyes met and they stared at each other for a long minute. Right, I'd heard that Logan and Jana had a brief fling over the summer. Jana occasionally gave Melanie a poison-dart stare. Going into her jealousy mode, I thought. As if she didn't already have Randy glued to her!
Randy must have seen Logan, because he glared at Logan. Uh-ohhh, I thought. Logan tried to look away quickly, but by then Melanie saw Jana and the two couples were glaring at each other. Once the song was over, Randy stood and kept glaring at Logan threateningly, his fists clenched.
"What's your problem?" Logan muttered.
"You, you sneaky, sleazy rat..." Randy hissed.
"Talk about sleazy rats, Kirwan," Matt Zeboski came up with Keith right behind him. "After ratting us all out last year!"
"Yeah, Zeboski, thanks for bashing down my door and putting that cute little note on my TV," Randy snapped. "And anyway, I wasn't the one who ratted you out, so butt out!"
"Yeah, maybe Conway magically got ESP after he questioned you and Bruno!" Matt snapped.
"I didn't tell him anything, but maybe I should have," Randy countered.
"Hey, Zeboski, Kirwan, quit blaming everyone else for your own mess that YOU created!" Logan put in.
"And quit hitting on MY fiancee," Randy growled at Logan.
"Hey, I tried to save your pathetic, useless, sorry butt in Conway's office..." Logan started, but Randy's fist shot out and smashed Logan in the jaw. Before anyone knew what was happening, Logan had smacked Randy back and Keith, Logan, Randy, and Matt were all punching, kicking, shoving, exchanging insults, yelling big time, and just going Springer on each other! Matt and Keith were swearing at the top of their lungs. Some of the other dancers screamed, others just stared, a few whooped things like, "C'mon, slug 'im!" "Bash his face in!"
"You were always a conceited..." Logan spat at Randy. Randy bashed him on the lip, splitting it. Logan winced, then clenched his fists again.
"Stop it, Logan!" Melanie screamed. She tried to pull her boyfriend away, but was pushed away. She skidded to a stop in front of Jana, who was staring in a kind of daze.
Melanie glared at Jana viciously. "Well, I hope you're happy, Jana Morgan! You've got THREE guys fighting over you, including MY boyfriend!" Jana started to back away. Sirens sounded in the distance, getting closer.
"YOU deal with them!" Melanie spat, grabbing Jana and shoving her over to the pile of fighting guys. Jana landed on top of Logan and they both fell over and landed with a thud onto the floor. The police burst in just then.
"ALLLL RIGHT, WHAT IS GOING ON HERE!" One of the officers boomed. Logan pulled Jana to her feet. Randy slowly got up, giving Keith a good kick in the ribs, and gave Logan such an icy, nasty glare the Logan actually shrank back in fear. Melanie was crying and went over to Logan and clung to him.
"Well!"
By then, everyone in the auditorium was staring at them. Boy wait until I got home and e-mailed my friend Lacey about this...!
Logan:
Boy, was my dad getting ready to have another field day on me. And after everything was beginning to calm down from last spring's debacle! He saw the flashing lights on the police car and came out to talk to them.
Thank God we weren't arrested, but the officers took all of us...Keith, Matt, Melanie, Jana, Randy, and me home in their cars. My dad ordered me inside and stayed outside to talk to them.
"Logan...what happened?" Mom gasped once I got inside and came over with a washcloth and wiped my split lip.
"Just a stupid fight that Randy Kirwan started," I muttered. The door slammed and I winced. Sure enough, Dad came in, looking so mad that I had to suppress a shudder.
"Well, young man!" he said sternly. "Just how stupid are you! I have to deal with another irresponsible mess that you've gotten yourself into! When are you going to learn!"
"It wasn't my fault..." I tried to explain, cringing to hear my voice sounding so weak and thin.
"Seems like I've heard that before!" Dad yelled.
"Kirwan started hitting first..."
"At this point, I don't want to hear who started what!" Dad bellowed at the top of his lungs. "I don't want our family EVER, EVER to be embarrassed and shamed by you like that again! IS THAT UNDERSTOOD!"
"Y-yes, sir," I told him, trying not to let my voice quaver, struggling to hang onto whatever shreds of dignity I had left.
"Get upstairs!" he barked. I went. Just then, my nosy brat of a brother, Hunter poked his head into my room.
"So what kind of trouble did you get into this time?" he asked.
"Mind your business!" I snapped. I slammed the door in his face and flopped on my bed. I'd been tempted to say a choice word there, but if Dad heard me or if Hunter ratted on me, I'd be toasted roast if I wasn't already, since my parents forbid cursing in my family.
Randy:
I can't believe the nerve of Bruno and Masterson, hitting on MY fiancee! And Zeboski and Bruno for trying to pin the blame on me for this fight!
All of us were coldly silent on the way home. I was so glad that Keith, Melanie, and Logan were in another car. I hoped that Bruno's dad really kicked his butt; that would serve him right. Matt and I glared at each other in icy silence.
As the officers dropped Matt off, Matt growled, "Well, thanks for nothing...slimy asshole..." then stalked up to his house before I could get in a word.
Jana and I held hands and when she was dropped off, I whispered, "I'll call you later." Jana smiled and nodded and I watched her head up to her apartment. Luckily, neither her mom or stepdad could see the cop car from their window.
Good thing I had her; this world was filled with too many traitors who'd stab you in the back in a second. When Jana and I married in June, we'd never have to deal with jerks like Matt Zeboski or Keith Masterson again. And Logan and Melanie can have each other; they deserve each other.
E-mail from Tammy to her friend, Lacey:
November 29, 2003
Lacey!
What a night I had! Tonight I went to the re-union dance at my old high school and Logan Bruno, Randy Kirwan, Keith Masterson, and Matt Zeboski opened Springer on each other by getting into a HUGE fistfight!
Then Jana Morgan and Melanie Edwards got into a big fight with each other! Melanie and Jana used to be friends back in high school and maybe at the beginning of college, but they're not anymore; now they can't stand each other. I actually think they starting drifting apart in maybe late spring of eleventh grade when they got into a fight over whose fault it was in a shoving incident in that baseball game at Stoneybrook High that May.
They didn't speak for that whole summer, then got back together that fall of senior year. They got into a couple of fights later in our senior year, including a huge one right before the prom. They'd sort of gotten back together that summer after we graduated from high school, but it was more like that they hung out together for social status; by then they really weren't close friends anymore.
By then, Randy was Jana's best friend. I think I mentioned in an earlier ee about Melanie and Logan acting stupid and blaming each other and breaking up, then getting back together again. Meanwhile, Jana and Logan had a fling while Randy snuck around with Melanie for a while.
I heard that once the suspension's over, Melanie's 'rents are making her live at home and commute to Stamford U., which is next to Stoneybrook, which is adjacent to Bridgeport. I'm so glad I was only suspended and that my 'rents aren't doing anything like making me stay at home indefinitely!
Well, at the dance, Logan, who was dancing with Melanie, gave Jana a kind of flirty look and Randy noticed and boy did hell break loose! Randy bashed Logan's jaw so hard, I'm surprised Logan didn't fly out the window! And of course, Logan hit Randy back and the fight of the millennium was on! The other guys started yelling about how the other was to blame for ratting the others out, yada, yakayak and they got into the fight! Jana was standing there like a ditz while Melanie was screaming at Logan to stop. Then she grabbed Jana and shoved her right into the fight!
By then police had arrived and pulled everyone apart. It was an incredible mess out of a cheap cop movie or something! Logan's lip was split; Randy had a bruise on his cheek; Keith had a bloody nose. Melanie was crying and pleading for the cops not to arrest them. Logan was pulling Jana to her feet and Randy gave him such an icy glare that Logan shrank back.
I guess they weren't busted because the cops didn't read them their rights or anything, but they were escorted out of the dance and driven home. Ohhh, boy, I wonder what their parents said when the cops brought them home? That's my excitement for the night! How was your Thanksgiving? How's your job at Bailey's going? Later!
Tammy
Winding down...there's just one more chapter, an epilogue, then this story is complete! Hope you've enjoyed this; there'll be more stories on the former Fabulous Five coming soon here on
