If today couldn't get any worse. Sora came face to face with Jamie, who insulted and belittled his friends, he got suspended cause Jamie accused him of beating the guy up, he got into an argument with his parents and got grounded, and now he's in a car with….I guess he's not really a mortal enemy but still being in a car with Darren was not something he was really begging to happen after this shitshow of a day.
"I swear if this has anything to do with Chelsea I swear I'm gonna-" Sora got interrupted before he could finish.
"I'm not here to talk about Chelsea, this is about Jamie." Darren interrupted.
Darren tossed a phone in Soras lap.
"What's this?" Sora asked.
"Proof that you didn't do anything to that asshole." Darren said
"...Say what?" Sora was confused by this.
Sora was honestly hesitant to believe what Darren was saying. I mean Darren was someone who obviously had something against Sora.
"I was in the Bathroom when you and Jamie went inside. I saw you both and I also saw what happened. You didn't lay a finger on the guy, neither did he. All that was makeup." Darren explained. "I saw it while I was in that stall. Those Tacos did not agree with me at all."
Sora looked at the phone and played the video in question. It's true, there Sora was and there was Jamie just out of his vision. Once he finished up Jamie got to work. He took out some type of makeup kit and started applying to the places where people would see an injury. Then he laid down on the floor and waited for someone to come in and see him. And then the rest was history. Sora was infuriated at this point. This asshole made his friends suffer, and now he was trying to get him in trouble. All for what? What was this guy's end goal? But, there was something that didn't sit right with Sora.
"Why are you showing me this? You hate me." Sora said, matteroffactly.
"You're right, I hate you. But I despise Jamie. The shit he's doing, doesn't help the LGBT community at all and makes it so people feel validated for their negative feelings towards the community." Darren explained.
Sora looked at him, wondering if he himself was part of the LGBT community.
"And no, I'm not part of the LGBT community. But I have an aunt who's a lesbian and a cousin who's Non-binary. I've heard stories from both of them with how some people in the community treat them. People who are supposed to be there for them, people who are supposed to be the small light in the world of darkness, my cousin's words not mine, they're in college to be a writer." Darren explained.
"I see, but this still doesn't explain why you're helping me. You could easily just send the video to Principal Rivers and let things go from there." Sora said.
"Well, you know as well as I do I'm not in the best of graces in Principal Rivers' eyes. Also, Jamie would learn nothing but how to lie better if I went to her with this evidence. We need a plan to truly take him down." Darren explained.
"Oooohhh we gonna go Oceans 11 on this asshole?" Sora asked.
"If you wanna think about it that way. But first thing's first. We have to get your parents to see the truth." Darren said pulling up to The Loud House.
"You know my sisters are probably gonna kill you right?" Sora stated.
"...I really don't care what your sisters do. The only thing I'm focused on is taking down Jamie." Darren told him.
Both boys get out of the car and make their way up to the front door. They both take a deep breath before Sora opens the door, ready for the metaphorical ass whooping he was gonna get from his parents. To his surprise his parents didn't begin yelling at him. Though to say they weren't staring him down with disappointment in their eyes, would be lying.
"Welcome home Sora." Rita said coldly.
"Who's your friend?" Lynn sr asked.
"I'm not really a friend sir, more of an acquaintance. But I need to talk to you about what happened today." Darren explained.
The Loud parents raise their eyebrows, confused by what Darren had just said.
Before another word could be said, Lori, Leni, Luna, and Luan all came downstairs when they heard the door open. So glad to see that Sora was alright. They however, weren't happy to see Darren with him.
"What is he doing here?" Lori asked with Venom in her voice.
"He's here to help me out with a certain problem at school." Sora said.
"And you're cool with him helping you? Dude, you hated this guy a month ago." Luna retorted.
"Yeah, and it's not like you don't have a reason for hating him. He hit Chelsea." Luan emphasized that last bit.
"I know what he did. And trust me, if it was any other circumstances I wouldn't be asking for his help. But the two of us have a common enemy right now." Sora explained.
He asked everyone in the room to sit so he could explain what happened. Showing the video to everyone. The girls were not happy at all, the parents on the other hand were happy, since now they had proof that their eldest son didn't beat up that kid.
"Okay, so you have video evidence of Jamie faking him getting beaten up. But why not just take this video to Principal Rivers?" Lynn Sr asked.
"Because if we do this now, the only thing Jamie is gonna learn is how to lie better. Trust me, I've seen how he is sir." Darren explained.
"Jamie, from what my friends have told me, is someone who's extremely toxic towards everyone. I don't wanna just get him in trouble. I wanna take him down. Especially after how he treated my friends." Sora explained.
"Would you girls be willing to help us?" Darren asked
"Honestly it's about time Jamie stepped down. You can count me in." Lori said.
"Count me in too. I can't stand people frowning and Jamie makes too many people frown." Luan stated
"Sam and Sully told me about that guy. I don't know him, but he already ticks me off. And going after my family is the last straw." Luna added.
Leni was the only one who didn't say anything. She didn't like to be mean to people, but she also wanted to help her brother.
"Leni, I'm not gonna ask you to be a part of this if you don't want to. I know how you are with people being mean to others, the only thing I ask is that you don't say anything about it." Sora said. "There is one thing I will need your help with."
"What's that?" Leni asked.
"We're gonna throw a benefit concert at school. And all the proceeds are gonna be going to local LGBT and homeless shelters." Sora explained. In fact, we might need everyone's help. "So, the rest of you in?"
The younger kids popped out from the dining room.
"You knew we were here the whole time?" Lincoln asked.
"We're Louds guys, subtlety is not in our vocabulary." Sora said.
"Well, I'm interested to hear this plan of yours." Lisa adjusted her glasses, with a smirk.
"Alright, Operation Manhattan is underway." Sora smirked.
"Why operation Manhattan?" Lynn Jr asked
"Cause when we're through with him, his life is gonna look like an atom bomb dropped on it." Sora explained.
The next day during lunch, Darren walked around the lunch room looking for Sora's friend. He saw them and made his way to the table. Putting down his tray to everyone's shock.
"Mind if I sit here?" Darren asked.
"What the fuck are you doing here?" Alex asked with a large amount of venom in his voice.
"If you think we'll let you sit here after what you did." Marcy growled.
"Just get out of here Darren." Cheryl said, looking disgusted.
"As much as I would like to just leave, I actually do need to talk to all of you." Darren sat down in between Chelsea and Valiry.
Both girls not even acknowledging him as he sat down, with the rest of the table giving him the stinkeye and sideeye.
"So, it seems Sora's been suspended again." Darren said, taking a spoonful of mashed potatoes. Before getting slammed into said potatoes.
"If you had anything to do with my boyfriend getting suspended I'm gonna-" before Chelsea could say another word, her phone rang.
Chelsea saw that Sora was calling her, immediately she picked up.
"King, what's going on…Yeah…what?...Okay, I trust you." Chelsea hung up and put her phone away. "So, what do you want?" Chelsea said, still mad at Darren.
Darren picked himself up out of his lunch and wiped the foodstuffs off. "Well, Sora's suspension was due to a certain leader of the LGBT club."
The whole table looked shocked hearing this.
"I'm gonna kill that asshole!" Chelsea said, gritting her teeth.
"Take it easy Chelsea. If you try anything he's gonna go after you next." Darren explained.
"So, what does that have to do with you sitting here?" Alan asked.
"Yeah, last time I checked, you weren't really welcome here." Juniper added.
"Because, me and Sora have a plan to take Jamie down once and for all. But it's gonna need a lot of help from all of you." Darren said.
He started explaining the plan that he and Sora cooked up last night. The group listened in and started agreeing with the plan. Killing his reputation and showing he's not a good head for the LGBT club could work. Especially if it gets Jamie out of everyone's hair. But first thing she first, they needed to get Sora unsuspend. That's when Darren got up and made his way to Jamie's table.
"Hey Jamie." Darren called out as he walked up behind the young man.
"What do you want, Arrow boy?" Jamie said, with venom in his voice.
"I need to talk to you about something, alone." Darren said.
"You expect me to follow you somewhere private?" Jamie asked, disgustedly.
"Follow me or don't, it's your choice. However what I have to talk to you with, isn't really something you wanna ignore." Darren said, making his way out of the lunchroom.
Jamie at first didn't take the bait, but soon his curiosity got the better of him and he reluctantly followed Darren outside, which is exactly what Darren wanted. The two walked together to the back of the school where he finally stopped.
"So, I heard Sora got suspended for beating you up?" Darren said
"Yeah, what about it?" Jamie said, rolling his eyes.
"You look a lot better than you did yesterday. For someone who just got beat up." Darren slyly said.
Jamie's eyes shot wide open. He forgot to put on his makeup to make it seem like he was still hurt. "Um, well, I'm a fast healer is all. What did you wanna talk about anyway?" Jamie said, trying to save face. But at this point, he was starting to sweat bullets.
"Actually, I wanted to show you something." Darren takes out his phone and shows Jamie the video he took yesterday.
Jamie was starting to panic now. Darren has evidence he lied. He tried reaching for the phone. "Gimmie that!" Jamie shouted.
Darren, who towered over Jamie kept his phone way above his head.
"Ah ah ah, you try anything and this clip goes on the school website." Darren said, keeping his cool as Jamie tried desperately to grab his phone.
Jamie realized he was finally powerless at this point. "Fine, what do you want? Money? Test papers? Sex?" Jamie asked, stewing in his rage.
"I'm good on cash, I've got really good grades, and no thanks, you're not my type." Darren smugly said.
"Then what do you want?" Jamie asked, losing his patience.
"Simple, you're gonna go to Principal Rivers and tell her you were wrong about Sora beating you up." Darren shoved his phone back in his pocket.
"That's it? What the hell am I even supposed to tell them?" Jamie asked.
"Don't know, don't care. Oh and, you have till the end of the day, otherwise you'll be front page news at this school." Darren walked off.
Jamie was not happy at all. Not only did someone have something on him, it was Darren of all people. One of the least liked people in the school. And now he was being Blackmailed. He didn't wanna risk that video getting out though so he quickly made his way to Principal Rivers office.
He explained that he was unfortunately mistaken about who beat him up. Sora was the only person he remembered in the bathroom with him. It's unfortunately really hazy who it was exactly.
"I see, Jamie I'm sorry that happened to you, but you have to understand what you did is unacceptable. You accused someone of a crime that you know they didn't commit. I'm sorry but you'll be serving detention after school today." Principal Rivers explained.
Jamie begrudgingly accepted his detention and apologized again for this. He left the room to leave for his next period.
Principal Rivers sighed and picked up her phone. Dialing the number to the Loud house. Rita thankfully was at home with Sora when the phone rang.
"Hello?" Rita answered.
"Hello Miss Loud." Principal Rivers replied
"Oh, hello Principal Rivers. Is everything okay?" Rita asked.
"Unfortunately not. It's about your son." Principal Rivers said.
"Oh? What happened? Sora didn't go to school today. He's been grounded." Rita said, winking at Sora who was in the dining room.
"Well it's more about what happened yesterday. The student that accused Sora of beating him up? Well he confessed that he may have been confused as to who attacked him, and only remembered Sora being in the bathroom with him." Principal Rivers explained.
"Oh my." Rita said in a fake shocked tone.
"Yes, it's also an error on my part unfortunately. I only had a vague video to go off of and really should've investigated better." Principal Rivers shaking her head.
"I see, so, what's gonna happen?" Rita asked, smiling.
"Well, I'm officially unsuspending Sora and he can return to school tomorrow. We'll also just switch that suspension to an, excused absence. And we'll just put this in the "never speak of again" drawer." Principal Rivers said.
"I see, well I'll make sure he's in school tomorrow. Thank you for calling Principal Rivers." Rita hung up as Sora sent a group message to everyone. "Looks like your plan is working son."
"It seems like it, but this is only just the start. Soon, Jamie's gonna wish he never messed with my friends." Sora said, getting up and making a call on his phone.
Meanwhile in New Jersey. Sora's biological grandparents were enjoying a day off by the pool.
"Sora's birthday is coming up soon." Julius said, flipping the page of his newspaper.
"You're right, we should do something for him." Maria said, enjoying the lovely weather as she sunbathed. Even if she was a grandma you couldn't say she was old, she looked like she was practically in her 50's.
"Perhaps we should call Rita and Lynn and set something up. Perhaps we could take them on a trip for his birthday." Julius said.
Before any more plans could be made. One of their butlers came up with the house phone.
"A call for you sir." the butler said.
"Thank you Tony." Julius took the phone answering it. "Hello?"
"Hey Gramps." Sora said on the other line.
"Sora, what a coincidence, we were just talking about you." Julius then put the phone on speaker.
"Hi sweetie, how are things?" Maria asked
"Hey Grams, I could be better." Sora said, in a slight melancholy tone.
"Is everything alright sweetie?" Maria asked.
"No, I'm having a problem with a bully at the moment. But don't worry, I'm taking care of it." Sora explained.
"Well if you need anything from us, please don't hesitate to ask." Juilus said.
"Actually, that's exactly why I called." Sora said.
Sora would explain his situation to his grandparents and also his plan to take the bully down.
"Would I be able to ask you guys for a loan to set up a benefit concert?" Sora asked.
"Well, that's certainly an odd request, but I think we can help out. How much would you be needing?" Julius asked.
"$100,000 for the whole thing." Sora said, bluntly.
"Hmm, $100,000 for a benefit concert. I think we might be able to accommodate." Maria said, grabbing her tablet and transferring the amount to an account they set up for him when they gave him the credit card.
"I hope you understand, this is a loan and we will be expecting you to pay this back." Julius explained.
"I know gramps, and as soon as this is all over, I'll get right to paying you guys back." Sora said, happy that his grandparents were on his side.
"We know you will Kiddo. Now, would you put Lynn or Rita on, we'd like to talk to them?" Julius asked.