Mostly a flashback in this chapter. Cheerleaders are eeeevil….
"What was all that about back there?" Nny finally asked as they got in his car.
Vixen looked down and played with her shirt, rubbing the soft fabric between her fingers. "Nothing…it's just…well…" "Tell me!" Johnny demanded, his hand on his knife. She jumped a little at his harsh tone, a tiny bit of emotional pain twisting within her gut.
"Well, those cheerleaders say things like that every time I go to my locker. They always think they're so much better than everyone else, always commenting on me and embarrassing me. One time, when I was a lot weaker, they got the jocks to hold me down and put a cheerleading outfit on,"
She began, bringing back the painful and embarrassing moment…
Vixen skipped through the halls, giddy as a little schoolgirl, and seeing as how she aced the math test that day, nothing could make her sad! She was going to pass this year for sure!
As she made her way to her locker, which was down in the cheerleaders' locker room, she started singing 'Walk This Way', since it was her favorite song with singing and she knew the lyrics by heart.
She grabbed her books and stuffed them in her backpack, then slung it over one shoulder. As she gallivanted across the gym floor, several football players grabbed her from behind and one slapped a hand over her mouth, then they carried her back into the locker room.
She flailed about as two of them held her down while the other undressed her. She stopped when she saw that the cheerleader squad has all rushed into the room. Her eyes shined with hope. They would certainly help her from these perverts!
But instead, they all started laughing. Then one strolled up to her side and said in her ear, "We don't like your kind, so, we're going to play a little prank," Vixen was very confused, then anger quickly took over as she redoubled her efforts to free herself.
"Damn, what I diehard!" One of the football players yelled, having trouble holding her. The one undressing her took a quick survey of her body, then one of the girls handed him something. Something pink.
Vixen's muffled screams before slightly louder as she realized they were clothes, and that the boy was redressing her in them!
Now dressed in a cheerleading outfit, the boys then carted her off into the football field, where the cheerleaders were all lined up and waiting to cheer. The football players then shoved some pompoms in her hands then pushed her out onto the field.
She was about to run, then turned to see that the bleachers were filled to capacity with people. And they all seemed to be staring at her. Her mouth dropped open and her bottom lip started to quiver, along with the rest of her body and blushing to the tips of her ears.
The cheerleaders then began cheering and jumping about, waving their pompoms, but Vixen just stood there, staring at the crowd. "Come on! Cheer damn you!" The coach yelled, blowing his whistle.
She looked at him, then back at the crowd and hopped a little.
"That's not cheering!" A person in the stands yelled, then started chanting, "Cheer, cheer, cheer, cheer!" A few more people joined in the mantra and pretty soon the whole crowd was shouting it.
"Hey! Isn't that that freaky little Vixen girl?!" a random boy called, then the crowd started laughing and jeering at her, realizing it was her. With tears in her eyes, she finally fled the scene, running across the field then jumping the chain-link fence, running down the streets.
She didn't care where she was running to, as long as it was far away from the place where the most humiliating moment in her short life has just occurred…
"Believe it or not, but that only happened about a month ago…" She choked, a few tears escaping her eyes and landing in her lap.
Johnny stared at her, shocked about her story, sorry for what had happened, and uneasy and slightly confused with her tears. Sure he had seen many cry before, but they had all deserved it. Every one that has cried in front of him. He was never fazed by it though, seeing as how they were all assholes that deserved to die in some horrible, twisted way.
But he knew that Vixen didn't deserve what had happened to her. She seemed so nice, how can someone do that to such a sweet kid? And dressing her up as a cheerleader?! That's just wrong! "They all need to burn in hell," Johnny said dangerously, his voice slightly raspy.
"So uh, what's your last name?" Vixen asked, changing the subject. "It's just Johnny C." She just nodded, deciding it would be best not to interrogate him further. "Yours?" He questioned after a few tense moments.
She looked at him and smiled weakly. "Promise not to laugh?" He nodded and scratched the back of his head. 'How could a last name be funny?' he thought. "It's Hope. Vixen Hope," She then puffed out her chest in pride and laughed a bit.
Nny's eyes widened till they took up most of his face. 'IT'S A SIGN!! EEP!!'
Hehehehaha!! I'm starting to like the whole 'it's a sign' thing XD!!! Sorry if Johnny's OOC, it's hard to keep him in character ;;;