" What would I do for a million bucks?" Jack asked, sitting in a circle on
the floor with the rest of the group. " Well, I guess I'd do as little as I
had to."
" That's boring." Rave sighed.
" Well, how'm I s'posed to answer?" Jack asked looking around and throwing his arms up in the air.
" The idea is to like, search your mind for the absolute limit. Like, uh, would you drive to school naked?" Rave asked as Jack laughed.
" Um, uh.would I have to get out of the car?" he asked as Curly Fry shook her head and giggled.
" Of course!" Rave answered.
" In the spring, or winter?"
" Please, not the winter," Denton begged.
" It doesn't matter.spring." Rave picked.
" In front of the school or in back of the school?" Jack asked again.
" Either one." Rave shrugged.
" Yes." Jack sighed smiling wide.
" I'd do that!" Chord suddenly yelled as everyone turned to look at her. " I'd do anything sexual, I don't need a million dollars to do it either."
" You're lying." Rave shook her head.
" How would you know?" Curly asked looking at her.
" I already have.I've done just about everything there is except a few things that are illegal.I'm a nymphomaniac!" She shouted as Rave rolled her eyes, Race's mouth falling open.
" Lie!" Rave shook her head.
" Are your parents aware of this?" David asked.
" The only person I told was my shrink." Chord looked at him with intense eyes.
" And what'd he do when you told him?" Jack asked.
" He nailed me." Chord smiled wildly.
" Nice." Curly Fry smiled shaking her head.
" Very nice." Rave replied sarcastically.
" I don't think that form a legal standpoint what he did can be construed as rape, since I paid him." She smiled.
" He's an adult!" Rave shouted in disgust. Chord sat there, beaming from the attention.
" Yeah.he's married too!" Chord went on.
" Do you have any idea how completely gross that is?" Rave asked.
" Oh shut up! You're just jealous 'cause you can't even land a guy in school to fuck!" Curly Fry shot back at Rave.
" Well, the first few times." Chord tried to go on.
" First few times? You mean he did it more than once?" Rave asked now completely grossed out.
" Sure." Chord shrugged.
" Are you crazy?" Rave asked again.
" Leave her alone!" Curly Fry yelled at Rave.
" Keep going, I want to hear more," Race begged.
" How big is he?" Denton asked leaning in.
" Obviously she's crazy if she's screwing her shrink." David pointed out.
" Have you ever done it?" Chord asked Rave looking at her.
" Gee, like we haven't gone through this already." Curly Fry sighed. "No body cares about my sex life.oh no, it's just Ms. Virginity over there!" Race looked over at Curly Fry.
" I don't even have a psychiatrist." Rave shook her head.
" Have you ever done it with a normal person?" Chord interrogated her.
" Now, didn't se already cover this?" Rave asked.
" That's what I said!" Curly Fry leaned back throwing her arms in the air.
" You never answered the question." Spot pointed out.
" Good point." Curly Fry muttered, leaning closer to hear what Rave had to say.
" Look, I'm not gonna discuss my private life with total strangers." Rave shook her head, crossing her arms.
" It's kind of a double-edged sword, isn't it?" Chord asked her.
" A what?" Rave asked.
" Well, if you say you haven't. you're a prude. If you say you have.you're a slut! It's a trap. You want to, but you can't but when you do, you wish you didn't, right?" Chord asked.
"Wrong." Rave shook her head.
" Or, are you a tease?" Chord asked again.
" I'm saying tease." Curly Fry offered.
" I'll bet you." Race said, the two shaking on it.
" She's a tease." Jack agreed.
" Oh, why don't you just forget it." Rave looked at him.
" You're a tease and you know it, all girls are teases!"
" Hey..okay, yea." Curly Fry shrugged.
" She's only a tease if what she does gets you hot." Spot leaned in as suddenly Denton pulled out his notebook and started scribbling in it again, the putting it back in his pocket.
" I don't do anything!" Rave shouted at Spot.
" That's why you're a tease." Chord went on.
" Okay, lemme ask you a few questions."
" I already told you everything!" Chord shouted defensively.
" No! Doesn't it bother you to sleep around without being in love? I mean, don't you want any respect?" Rave asked.
" I don't screw to get respect.that's the difference between you and me." Chord shot back at her.
" Not the only difference, I hope." Rave replied. " Who screws to get respect?" Curly Fry asked. " Face it, you're a tease." Spot looked at Rave.
" I'm not a tease!" Rave went on.
" Sure you are! You said it yourself, sex is a weapon you use it to get respect!" Spot shoved it back in her face.
" No, I never said that, she twisted my words around!" Rave shouted back.
" Oh, then what do you use it for?" Spot asked.
" I don't use it period!" Rave yelled, on the verge of tears
" Oh, are you medically frigid or is it psychological?" Spot asked.
" I didn't mean it that way! You guys are putting words into my mouth!"
" Well, if you'd just answer the question." Spot went on.
" Why don't you just answer the question?" David asked.
" Yea, it's just a question." Denton added.
" You're a teacher!" Rave shouted in disgust as Denton shrugged.
" Be honest." Jack added.
" No big deal." Spot agreed.
" Yeah, answer it!" David nodded.
" Answer the freaking question!" Curly Fry folded her arms. "It's easy, yes, no."
" Answer the question Rave!" Jack yelled.
" Talk to us!" Spot smiled.
" Come on, answer the question!" Jack and David yelled at the same time.
" It's easy, it's only one question!" Race and Spot yelled together as Rave suddenly screamed, silencing the whole room.
" No! I never did it!" She yelled.
" You owe me," Curly whispered to Race.
" I never did it either, I'm not a nymphomaniac. I'm a compulsive liar." Chord smiled.
" You are such a bitch! You did that on purpose just to fuck me over!" Rave screamed at Chord.
" Don't yell at her!" Curly Fry defended Chord.
" I would do it though. if you love someone it's okay." Chord smiled sweetly at Rave.
" I can't believe you, you're so weird. You don't say anything all day and then when you open your mouth.you unload all these tremendous lies all over me!" Rave went off on her again.
" You're just pissed off because she got you to admit something you didn't want to admit to." Jack piped in.
" Okay, fine, but that doesn't make it any less bizarre."
" What's bizarre? I mean, we're all pretty bizarre! Some of us are just better at hiding it, that's all." Jack went off.
" How are you bizarre?" Rave asked Jack.
" He can't think of himself." Chord answered for him.
" She's right.do you guys know what, uh, what I did to get in here? I taped Crutchy's buns together." Jack confessed as Rave laughed.
" That was you?" David asked.
" Yeah, you know him?" Jack asked.
" Yeah, I know him." David nodded.
" Well, then you know how hair he is, right? Well when they pulled the tape off, most of his hair came off and some, some skin too." Jack looked down.
" Oh my God." Rave put her and to her mouth as Curly Fry looked at Jack in disgust.
" And the bizarre thing is, is that I did it for my old man.. I tortured this poor kid, because I wanted him to think that I was cool. He's always going off about, you know, when he was in school. all the wild things he used to do. And I got the feeling that he was disappointed that I never cut loose on anyone, right.. So, I'm.I'm sitting in the locker room, and I'm taping up my knee. And Crutchy's undressing a couple lockers down from me. Yeah. he's kinda skinny, weak. And I started thinking about my father and his attitude about weakness. And the next thing I knew, I uh, I jumped on top of him and started wailing on him.and my friends they just laughed and cheered me on. And afterwards, when I was sitting in Pulitzer's office, all I could thin about was Crutchy's father. And Crutchy having to go home and.and explain what happened to him. And the humiliation.fucking humiliation he must've felt. It must've been unreal.I mean," Jack tried to fight back tears, but it wasn't helping. " I mean, how do you apologize for something like that? There's no way.it's all because of me and my old man. Oh, God, I fucking hate him! He's like this.he's like this mindless machine that I can't even relate to anymore. 'Andrew you've got to be number one! I won't tolerate any losers in this family.Your intensity is for shit! Win. Win. WIN!!!' You son of a bitch. You know, sometimes, I wish my knee would give.and I wouldn't be able to wrestle anymore. And he could forget about me." Jack was gazing down.
" I think your old man and my old man should get together and go bowling." Spot said solemnly as Jack laughed for a brief moment.
"It's like me, you know, with my grades.like, when I, when I step outside myself kinda, and when I, when I look in at myself you know? And I see me and I don't like what I see, I really don't." David sighed, opening up slightly.
" What's wrong with you? Why don't you like yourself?" Rave asked, trying to be sympathetic.
" 'Cause, I'm stupid-'cause I'm failing shop. See we had this assignment, to make this ceramic elephant, and um. we had eight weeks to do it and we're s'posed ta. and it was like a lamp, and when you pull the truck the light was s'posed to go on. My light didn't go on, I got a F on it. Never got a F in my life.. When I signed up, you know, for the course I mean, I thought I was playing it real smart, you know? 'Cause I thought, I'll take shop, it'll be such an easy way to maintain my grade point average.." David tried to explain, starting to get upset about it.
" Why'd you think it'd be easy?" Spot questioned.
" Have you seen some of the dopes that take shop?" David asked.
" I take shop.you must be a fuckin' idiot!" Spot shot back.
" I'm a fuckin' idiot because I can't make a lamp?" David repeated.
" No, you're a genius because you can't make a lamp." Spot shook his head.
" Hey, I can't make a lamp either," Denton tried to cheer David up.
" What do you know about Trigonometry?" David stared over at Spot.
" I could care less about Trigonometry." Spot hissed.
" Conlon, did you know without Trigonometry there'd be no engineering?"
" He got you there.." Race pointed.
" Without lamps, there'd be no light!" Spot shot back, as Race looked down, realizing he had a small point there too.
" Okay, so neither one of you is any better than the other." Rave tried to break it up.
" I can write with my toes! I can also eat, brush my teeth." Chord piped in, feeling left out once again, and trying to change the subject.
" With your feet?" Rave asked in disgust.
" .play Heart and Soul on the piano," Chord finished.
" I can make spaghetti!" David smiled.
" I can shuffle a deck really fast and make them fly from one hand to the other," Race smiled pulling out his deck of cards and demonstrating.
" I can pick locks," Curly Fry smiled.
" What can you do?" Rave asked looking at Jack.
" I can.uh.tape all your buns together," he smirked.
" I wanna see what Rave can do!" Spot piped in.
" What about me?" Denton asked.
" I don't think anyone cares." Spot hissed at him, and then turned back to Rave.
" I can't do anything," She shrugged.
" Now, everybody can do something." Spot shook his head not believing a word she was saying. " There's on thing I can do-no, forget it, it's way too embarrassing." Rave shook her head trying to get them to stop pushing the subject.
" You ever seen Wild Kingdom? I mean that guy's been doing that show for thirty years." Spot replied.
" Okay, but you have to swear to God you won't laugh. I can't believe I'm actually doing this." She half muttered to herself as she dug in her purse and pulled out her lipstick. She opened it and carefully placed it between her breasts and bent her head down and applied it from her cleavage. She lifted her head up to expose her lips, the lipstick perfectly applied. Everyone clapped but, Spot, who clapped sarcastically and slow.
" All right, great! Where'd you learn to do that?" Jack asked shocked.
" Camp, seventh grade," Rave blushed.
" That was great, Rave-my image of you is totally blow." Spot smirked.
" You're a shit! Don't do that to her, you swore to God you wouldn't laugh!" Chord yelled.
"Am I laughing?" Spot asked looking at her.
" You fucking prick," Jack shook his head.
" You jerk!" Curly Fry threw a book at him as he dodged it and turning to Jack, their words obviously hitting home.
" What do you care what I think, anyway? I don't even count, right? I could disappear forever and it wouldn't make any difference-I may as well not even exist at this school, remember?" He said, then turning to Rave. " And you.don't like me anyway!"
" You know, I have just as many feelings as you do and it hurts just as much when somebody steps all over them!" Rave shouted at him.
" God, you're so pathetic!" he yelled in fury. " Don't you ever..EVER, compare yourself to me! Okay? You got everything, and I got shit. Fuckin' Rapunzel, right? School would probably fucking shut down if you didn't show up! "Queenie isn't here!" I like those earrings, Rave."
" Shut up," Rave ordered quietly.
" Are those real diamonds, Rave?"
" Shut up!" she yelled angrily.
" I bet they are."
" Shut."
" did you work for the money for those earrings?"
" Your mouth!" Rave screamed as Spot kept on at it.
" Or did your daddy buy those?"
" Shut up!" Rave screamed again, now beginning to cry.
" I bet he bought those of you! I bet those are a Christmas gift! Right? You know what I got for Christmas this year? It was a banner fuckin' year the old Conlon family! I got a carton of cigarettes. The old man grabbed me and said: 'Hey, Some up, Spotty!' Okay, so go home an' cry to your daddy, don't cry here, okay?" Spot yelled at her as Rave sobbed.
" My God, are we gonna be like our parents?" Jack suddenly asked.
" Not me.ever." Rave replied threw sobs.
" I'm already heading there.my dad was a compulsive gambler. He lost everything, and my mom took us and left him." Race said solemnly.
" It's unavoidable, it just happens," Chord sighed.
" What happens?" Rave asked.
" When you grow up, your heart dies." Chord answered.
" Who cares?" Spot yawned as Chord started to tear up.
" I care." Chord hissed.
" I never wanna be like my mother," Curly Fry shook her head. " I wanna be like my brother. He doesn't care. he didn't turn into my parents."
" Then he was lucky," Race looked at her.
" Um, I was just thinking, I mean. I know it's kind of weird time, but, I was wondering, um, what is gonna happen to us on Monday? When we're all together again? I mean, I consider you guys my friends, I'm not wrong, am I?" David asked.
" No." Jack shook his head.
" So, so on Monday.what happens?" He repeated.
" Are we still friends, you mean? If we're friends now, that is?" Rave asked.
" Yeah."
" I know this answer," Curly Fry shook her head and looked away.
" Do you want the truth?" Rave asked David.
" Yeah, I want the truth,"
" I don't think so." Rave shook her head.
" Well, do you mean all of us, or just Spot?" Chord asked.
" With all of you." Rave answered.
" That's real nice attitude, Rave!" Jack shouted.
" Oh, be honest, Jack! If David came walking up to you in the hall on Monday, what would you do? I mean picture this, you're there will all the sports. I know exactly what you'd do. You'd say hi to him and when he left you'd cut him all up so your friends wouldn't think you really like him!" Rave shot back at him.
" No way!" Jack disagreed.
" 'Kay, what if I cam up to you?" Chord asked.
" Same exact thing!" Rave half laughed.
" Yeah, well I wouldn't do that! I don't care!" Curly Fry shouted.
" That's because you're an outcast anyway!" Rave shot back at Curly Fry.
" You're a bitch!" Spot screamed at him.
" Why, 'cause I'm telling the truth, that makes me a bitch?"
" No! 'Cause you know how shitty that is to do to someone! And you don't got the balls to stand up to your friends and tell 'em that you're gonna like who you wanna like!" Spot yelled back.
" Okay, what about you, you hypocrite! Why don't you take Chord to one of your heavy metal vomit parties? Or take David out to the parking lot at lunch to get high? What about Denton? What about Jack for that matter, what about me?"
" You left out Race and I deary," Curly Fry glared at her.
" What would your friends say if we were walking down the hall together? They'd laugh their asses off and you'd probably tell them you were doing it with me so they'd forgive you for being seen with me." Rave went on.
" Don't you ever talk about my friends! You don't know any of my friends, you don't look at any my friend and you certainly wouldn't condescend to speak to any of my friends, so you just stick to the things you know, shopping, nail polish and your father's BMW and poor-rich-drunk mother in the Caribbean!" Spot screamed at her.
" Shut up!" Rave started sobbing again.
" And as far as being concerned about what's gonna happen when you and I walk down the hallways at school, you can forget it! 'Cause it's never gonna happen! Just bury your head in the said.and wait for your fuckin' prom!" Spot continued to yell at her.
" I hate you!" Rave snapped.
" Yeah? Good!" Spot yelled back as he crossed his arms and sat there.
" Then I assume Chord, Curly Fry, Race and I are better people than you guys, huh? Us weirdo's." David said. " Do you, would you do that to me?" he asked looking at them.
" I wouldn't either," Denton sighed.
" I don't have any friends," Chord looked down.
" My friends don't care," Curly Fry smiled at him.
" Neither do mine," Race shuffled through his cards.
" I just wanna tell, each of you, that I wouldn't do that.I wouldn't an I will not! 'cause I think that's real shitty." David shook his head.
" Your friends wouldn't mind because they look up to us." Rave replied as David laughed.
" You're so conceited, Rave. You're so conceited. You're so, like, full or yourself, why are you like that?" David asked as Rave started to cry again.
" I'm not saying that to be conceited! I hate it! I hate having to go along with everything my friends say!"
" Well then, why do you do it?" David asked.
" I don't know.I don't, you don't understand. You don't. You're not friends with the same kind of people that Jack and I are friends with! You know, you just don't understand the pressure that they can put on you!" David started at her, his mouth wide open.
" I don't understand what? You think I don't understand pressure, Rave? Well fuck you! Fuck you!" David buried his head in his arm as he started to cry. " You know why I'm here, today? Do you? I'm here because Mr. Kloppman found a gun in my locker."
" Why would you have a gun in your locker?" Jack asked shocked.
" I tried. You pull the fuckin' truck on it an the light's s'posed to go on.and it didn't go on, I mean.I.."
" What's the gun for, David?" Jack repeated.
" Just forget it," David shook his head.
" You brought it up, man!" Jack pointed out.
" I can't have an F, I can't it and I know my parents can't have it! Even if I aced the rest of the semester, I'm sill only a B. And everything's ruined for me!"
" David.." Curly Fry shook her head, a tear running down her cheek.
" Oh, David.." Rave sighed with pity as David kicked a chair over.
" So I considered my options, you know?"
" No! Killing yourself is not an option!" Rave shook her head.
" Well, I didn't do it, did I? Now, I don't think so." David looked at her with a tear stricken face.
" Was it a hand gun?" Chord asked.
" No, it was a flare gun, went off in my locker."
" Really?" Jack asked, starting to laugh.
" It's no funny." David shook his head as everyone started to laugh. " Yes it is.fuckin' elephant was destroyed!"
" You wanna know what I did to get in here? Nothing.I didn't have anything better to do!" Chord told them as they started to laugh. " You're laughing at me." Chord looked at them."
" No!" Jack giggled.
" Yes you are!" Chord laughed.
" I'm here cause I bet a teacher on a race, and lost. I never paid him so he gave me detention." Race confessed.
" I wrote on the bathroom wall that Ms. Larkson was a slut, and she walked in." Curly Fry confessed as well.
" That was you?" Rave laughed as Curly Fry nodded. " That was so funny. All the girls were talking about that. They tried so hard to wash it off, but it didn't!"
" Yea, they have to paint the whole bathroom over again!"
" Why are you here?" David asked looking at Denton, who blushed.
" I'm here, because." he looked down at his notebook, and licked the his upper lip and handed it over to David. David flipped through it, a confused expression on his face.
" These are naked drawings." he gawked. " Of us, and mostly.boys and- me?" David asked dropping the book as Jack picked it up and passed it around. Denton sat there blushing and smiled at David.
" Yeah," he nodded. " The teachers agreed that it would do me good, to sit in on you guys," he shrugged. " Imagine that, a student teacher that happens to be a pedophile, stuck in a room with very attractive people," he looked at David and winked. " and that's s'posed to fix me." He shook his head. " Maybe I should be a write for play-girl or something." They sat there looking at him all of them glancing at their naked picture.
" How did you know that I had that pierced?" Curly Fry asked looking down at her naked picture at the breast.
" The little indent there," Denton pointed as she covered up her chest.
" Gross." she said tossing the notebook to Denton, but it landed back in front of David.
* * *
Shortly after David walked into the office and put a record in and started to play music as they all danced around the room.
" Come on," Curly Fry grabbed Race's hand as they started to prance around.
Spot in the mean time was heading back through the heating duct, incase Pulitzer was to make another surprise visit to the closet. When the song was over, Denton, David, Rave, Race, Curly Fry, Jack and Chord sat on the railing.
" David?" Rave asked looking at him.
" Yeah?" he asked.
" Are you gonna write your paper?" she asked sweetly.
" Yeah, why?" he asked.
" Well, it's kinda a waste for all of us to write our paper, don't you think?"
" Oh, but that's what Pulitzer wants us to do."
" True, but I think we'd all kinda say the same thing."
" You just don't want to write your paper.right?"
" True, but, you're the smartest, right?"
" Oh well." David smiled with pride.
" We trust you." Rave smiled as David looked at everyone who nodded at him with approval.
" I'll help you," Denton offered.
" All right, I'll do it, but with your help." He pointed to Denton, who blushed back.
" Great," Rave smiled.
" You, come here," Curly Fry called looking at Race and heading off to the back section of the library.
" What?" Race asked, hopping off the railing.
" I saw you looking at the drawing Denton did of me," she smiled.
" So?" he asked.
" Well." she looked down sheepishly. " You wanna see how accurate that drawing is?" she asked as Race raised an eyebrow, and tossed his cards out of his hands and followed Curly Fry back to the back section of the library.
Rave looked over at Chord.
" Come on," she said smiled hopping off the railing.
" Where're we going?" Chord asked.
" Come one!" Rave smiled as Chord followed her. They sat down in another part of the library as Rave pulled out her make up and started to put make-up on Chord. "Don't be afraid," she tried to hush Chord who was squirming around.
" Don't stick that in my eye!" Chord shouted.
" I'm not sticking it, just close.just go like that." Rave demonstrated by closing her eyes. Chord mimicked her as Rave put the make up on.
" Good!" Rave smiled as Chord squealed. "You know, you really do look a lot better without all that black shit on your eyes.
" Hey. I like that black shit." Chord snapped.
" This looks a lot better..look up." Rave ordered.
* * * Back in the other part of the library, Denton and David sat there talking about what to write. Jack sat there staring off into space.
* * *
" Please, why are you being so nice to me?" Chord asked as Rave came at her with another make-up brush.
" 'Cause you're letting me," Rave smiled.
* * * David and Denton smiled at each other and then looked down at the paper as David started to write. Jack sat there, still deep in thought.
* * *
Spot was sitting back in the closet once again when the door suddenly opened as Rave slipped in and shut the door behind her.
" You lost?" Spot asked staring at her as Rave smiled at him. Suddenly, Spot smiled widely, like never before.
* * *
Back in the library David put the finishing touches on the paper. Jack looked up and nearly fell back when he saw the newly made over Chord standing in front of him. Chord started to walk towards him when she looked over to see David staring at her with his mouth wide open. She glared at him as Denton put his hand under David's chin and closed his mouth for him.
" Cool," Jack smiled.
" Thank you!" she blushed.
* * *
Back in the closet Rave leaned in and kissed Spot. She stopped and looked at him.
" Why'd you do that?" he asked.
" 'Cause I knew you wouldn't." she smiled.
" You know how you said before, how your parents used you to get back at each other. wouldn't I be outstanding in that capacity?" he smiled.
" Where you really disgusted about what I did with my lipstick?" she questioned.
" Truth?"
" Truth."
" No." Spot replied as he nodded his head at the same time.
* * *
Back in the library David looked back over at his paper and kissed it. Just then Denton grabbed his face, and pulled him in for a big kiss. David pulled back and looked at Denton, and then over at Jack and Chord who weren't paying attention. He shrugged and leaned back in and kissed Denton.
" What happened to you?" Jack asked looking at Chord in awe.
" Why? Rave did! What's wrong?" she snapped.
" Nothing's wrong, it's just so different. I can see your face." He bushed a little piece of hair behind her ear.
" Is that good, or bad?"
" It's good!" Jack smiled and laughed as Chord smiled back.
* * *
All eight of them headed down the hall towards the front doors. They stood and looked at Weasel who was now sweeping the hallways, noticing a letter and picking it up. David smiled and nodded at him.
" See ya David," Weasel smiled.
" Hey Weasel." David muttered as he walked pass.
" See you next Saturday," Spot smiled at Weasel.
" You bet," Weasel nodded.
* * *
Before David got outside, Denton handed him a piece of paper.
" Something for you to remember me by," Denton smiled as David opened it up to see a drawing of himself with Denton's arms wrapped around him. " If you ever want to. hang out or something, give me a call. Maybe I could help you with shop," Denton smiled. David nodded and headed out of the school, placing the picture in his jacket pocket. He stepped out into the cool air and headed for his dad's car and got in. His dad gave him a weak smile as they took off.
Curly Fry walked over to the bike rack with Race and leaned against the side of the building.
" Well?" she asked looking at him.
" Well, it was better than the drawing," Race smiled. Curly Fry looked down.
" You ain't gonna call me, are ya?" she asked.
" Maybe," Race shrugged, pulling his bike out of the rack.
" The odds?" she asked, knowing his was a betting man.
" From wear I'm standing, it's a good bet." He smiled as he got on his bike head pedaled away. Curly Fry heard a horn honk and turned to see her brother in the front seat.
" Move your ass! 'Come on!" Curly Fry smiled and ran to her brother's car and got in.
Jack looked at Chord and smiled, and pulled her in for a kiss. They looked into each other's eyes as her mother honked the horn. She grabbed at patch on his jacket and ripped it off, smiling and placing it in her pocket and got in the car as Jack's dad pulled up. His dad looked at Chord, and then at Jack.
" Let's just go," Jack said as his dad hit the gas and drove off.
Rave stood to the side of her father's car and took out one of her diamond earrings, and placed it in Spot's hand, closing it tightly around it. She leaned in and kissed him and got in the car as her father sped off. Spot stood there, and slowly opened his hand, and put the earring in his ear.
* * *
Pulitzer walked in the library to see one piece of paper sitting on one of the desks where David had been sitting. He paced over and picked it up and began to read.
" Dear Mr. Pulitzer, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong. But we think you're crazy to make an easy telling you who we think we are. You see us as you want to see us-In the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions." He read, hearing David's voice.
Spot walked towards the football field, as David's voice continued to read.
" But what we found out is that each one of us is a brain."
" .and an athlete." Jack's voice came in.
" .and a basket case."
" .a princess.."
" . a gambler."
" . a pedophile."
". a punk."
" . and a criminal," they each answered.
" Does that answer your question?" David's voice came back. " Sincerely yours, the Newsies Breakfast Club." Pulitzer stared blankly at the page as Spot walked across the football field and thrusted his fist into the air in a silent cheer.
The End.
" That's boring." Rave sighed.
" Well, how'm I s'posed to answer?" Jack asked looking around and throwing his arms up in the air.
" The idea is to like, search your mind for the absolute limit. Like, uh, would you drive to school naked?" Rave asked as Jack laughed.
" Um, uh.would I have to get out of the car?" he asked as Curly Fry shook her head and giggled.
" Of course!" Rave answered.
" In the spring, or winter?"
" Please, not the winter," Denton begged.
" It doesn't matter.spring." Rave picked.
" In front of the school or in back of the school?" Jack asked again.
" Either one." Rave shrugged.
" Yes." Jack sighed smiling wide.
" I'd do that!" Chord suddenly yelled as everyone turned to look at her. " I'd do anything sexual, I don't need a million dollars to do it either."
" You're lying." Rave shook her head.
" How would you know?" Curly asked looking at her.
" I already have.I've done just about everything there is except a few things that are illegal.I'm a nymphomaniac!" She shouted as Rave rolled her eyes, Race's mouth falling open.
" Lie!" Rave shook her head.
" Are your parents aware of this?" David asked.
" The only person I told was my shrink." Chord looked at him with intense eyes.
" And what'd he do when you told him?" Jack asked.
" He nailed me." Chord smiled wildly.
" Nice." Curly Fry smiled shaking her head.
" Very nice." Rave replied sarcastically.
" I don't think that form a legal standpoint what he did can be construed as rape, since I paid him." She smiled.
" He's an adult!" Rave shouted in disgust. Chord sat there, beaming from the attention.
" Yeah.he's married too!" Chord went on.
" Do you have any idea how completely gross that is?" Rave asked.
" Oh shut up! You're just jealous 'cause you can't even land a guy in school to fuck!" Curly Fry shot back at Rave.
" Well, the first few times." Chord tried to go on.
" First few times? You mean he did it more than once?" Rave asked now completely grossed out.
" Sure." Chord shrugged.
" Are you crazy?" Rave asked again.
" Leave her alone!" Curly Fry yelled at Rave.
" Keep going, I want to hear more," Race begged.
" How big is he?" Denton asked leaning in.
" Obviously she's crazy if she's screwing her shrink." David pointed out.
" Have you ever done it?" Chord asked Rave looking at her.
" Gee, like we haven't gone through this already." Curly Fry sighed. "No body cares about my sex life.oh no, it's just Ms. Virginity over there!" Race looked over at Curly Fry.
" I don't even have a psychiatrist." Rave shook her head.
" Have you ever done it with a normal person?" Chord interrogated her.
" Now, didn't se already cover this?" Rave asked.
" That's what I said!" Curly Fry leaned back throwing her arms in the air.
" You never answered the question." Spot pointed out.
" Good point." Curly Fry muttered, leaning closer to hear what Rave had to say.
" Look, I'm not gonna discuss my private life with total strangers." Rave shook her head, crossing her arms.
" It's kind of a double-edged sword, isn't it?" Chord asked her.
" A what?" Rave asked.
" Well, if you say you haven't. you're a prude. If you say you have.you're a slut! It's a trap. You want to, but you can't but when you do, you wish you didn't, right?" Chord asked.
"Wrong." Rave shook her head.
" Or, are you a tease?" Chord asked again.
" I'm saying tease." Curly Fry offered.
" I'll bet you." Race said, the two shaking on it.
" She's a tease." Jack agreed.
" Oh, why don't you just forget it." Rave looked at him.
" You're a tease and you know it, all girls are teases!"
" Hey..okay, yea." Curly Fry shrugged.
" She's only a tease if what she does gets you hot." Spot leaned in as suddenly Denton pulled out his notebook and started scribbling in it again, the putting it back in his pocket.
" I don't do anything!" Rave shouted at Spot.
" That's why you're a tease." Chord went on.
" Okay, lemme ask you a few questions."
" I already told you everything!" Chord shouted defensively.
" No! Doesn't it bother you to sleep around without being in love? I mean, don't you want any respect?" Rave asked.
" I don't screw to get respect.that's the difference between you and me." Chord shot back at her.
" Not the only difference, I hope." Rave replied. " Who screws to get respect?" Curly Fry asked. " Face it, you're a tease." Spot looked at Rave.
" I'm not a tease!" Rave went on.
" Sure you are! You said it yourself, sex is a weapon you use it to get respect!" Spot shoved it back in her face.
" No, I never said that, she twisted my words around!" Rave shouted back.
" Oh, then what do you use it for?" Spot asked.
" I don't use it period!" Rave yelled, on the verge of tears
" Oh, are you medically frigid or is it psychological?" Spot asked.
" I didn't mean it that way! You guys are putting words into my mouth!"
" Well, if you'd just answer the question." Spot went on.
" Why don't you just answer the question?" David asked.
" Yea, it's just a question." Denton added.
" You're a teacher!" Rave shouted in disgust as Denton shrugged.
" Be honest." Jack added.
" No big deal." Spot agreed.
" Yeah, answer it!" David nodded.
" Answer the freaking question!" Curly Fry folded her arms. "It's easy, yes, no."
" Answer the question Rave!" Jack yelled.
" Talk to us!" Spot smiled.
" Come on, answer the question!" Jack and David yelled at the same time.
" It's easy, it's only one question!" Race and Spot yelled together as Rave suddenly screamed, silencing the whole room.
" No! I never did it!" She yelled.
" You owe me," Curly whispered to Race.
" I never did it either, I'm not a nymphomaniac. I'm a compulsive liar." Chord smiled.
" You are such a bitch! You did that on purpose just to fuck me over!" Rave screamed at Chord.
" Don't yell at her!" Curly Fry defended Chord.
" I would do it though. if you love someone it's okay." Chord smiled sweetly at Rave.
" I can't believe you, you're so weird. You don't say anything all day and then when you open your mouth.you unload all these tremendous lies all over me!" Rave went off on her again.
" You're just pissed off because she got you to admit something you didn't want to admit to." Jack piped in.
" Okay, fine, but that doesn't make it any less bizarre."
" What's bizarre? I mean, we're all pretty bizarre! Some of us are just better at hiding it, that's all." Jack went off.
" How are you bizarre?" Rave asked Jack.
" He can't think of himself." Chord answered for him.
" She's right.do you guys know what, uh, what I did to get in here? I taped Crutchy's buns together." Jack confessed as Rave laughed.
" That was you?" David asked.
" Yeah, you know him?" Jack asked.
" Yeah, I know him." David nodded.
" Well, then you know how hair he is, right? Well when they pulled the tape off, most of his hair came off and some, some skin too." Jack looked down.
" Oh my God." Rave put her and to her mouth as Curly Fry looked at Jack in disgust.
" And the bizarre thing is, is that I did it for my old man.. I tortured this poor kid, because I wanted him to think that I was cool. He's always going off about, you know, when he was in school. all the wild things he used to do. And I got the feeling that he was disappointed that I never cut loose on anyone, right.. So, I'm.I'm sitting in the locker room, and I'm taping up my knee. And Crutchy's undressing a couple lockers down from me. Yeah. he's kinda skinny, weak. And I started thinking about my father and his attitude about weakness. And the next thing I knew, I uh, I jumped on top of him and started wailing on him.and my friends they just laughed and cheered me on. And afterwards, when I was sitting in Pulitzer's office, all I could thin about was Crutchy's father. And Crutchy having to go home and.and explain what happened to him. And the humiliation.fucking humiliation he must've felt. It must've been unreal.I mean," Jack tried to fight back tears, but it wasn't helping. " I mean, how do you apologize for something like that? There's no way.it's all because of me and my old man. Oh, God, I fucking hate him! He's like this.he's like this mindless machine that I can't even relate to anymore. 'Andrew you've got to be number one! I won't tolerate any losers in this family.Your intensity is for shit! Win. Win. WIN!!!' You son of a bitch. You know, sometimes, I wish my knee would give.and I wouldn't be able to wrestle anymore. And he could forget about me." Jack was gazing down.
" I think your old man and my old man should get together and go bowling." Spot said solemnly as Jack laughed for a brief moment.
"It's like me, you know, with my grades.like, when I, when I step outside myself kinda, and when I, when I look in at myself you know? And I see me and I don't like what I see, I really don't." David sighed, opening up slightly.
" What's wrong with you? Why don't you like yourself?" Rave asked, trying to be sympathetic.
" 'Cause, I'm stupid-'cause I'm failing shop. See we had this assignment, to make this ceramic elephant, and um. we had eight weeks to do it and we're s'posed ta. and it was like a lamp, and when you pull the truck the light was s'posed to go on. My light didn't go on, I got a F on it. Never got a F in my life.. When I signed up, you know, for the course I mean, I thought I was playing it real smart, you know? 'Cause I thought, I'll take shop, it'll be such an easy way to maintain my grade point average.." David tried to explain, starting to get upset about it.
" Why'd you think it'd be easy?" Spot questioned.
" Have you seen some of the dopes that take shop?" David asked.
" I take shop.you must be a fuckin' idiot!" Spot shot back.
" I'm a fuckin' idiot because I can't make a lamp?" David repeated.
" No, you're a genius because you can't make a lamp." Spot shook his head.
" Hey, I can't make a lamp either," Denton tried to cheer David up.
" What do you know about Trigonometry?" David stared over at Spot.
" I could care less about Trigonometry." Spot hissed.
" Conlon, did you know without Trigonometry there'd be no engineering?"
" He got you there.." Race pointed.
" Without lamps, there'd be no light!" Spot shot back, as Race looked down, realizing he had a small point there too.
" Okay, so neither one of you is any better than the other." Rave tried to break it up.
" I can write with my toes! I can also eat, brush my teeth." Chord piped in, feeling left out once again, and trying to change the subject.
" With your feet?" Rave asked in disgust.
" .play Heart and Soul on the piano," Chord finished.
" I can make spaghetti!" David smiled.
" I can shuffle a deck really fast and make them fly from one hand to the other," Race smiled pulling out his deck of cards and demonstrating.
" I can pick locks," Curly Fry smiled.
" What can you do?" Rave asked looking at Jack.
" I can.uh.tape all your buns together," he smirked.
" I wanna see what Rave can do!" Spot piped in.
" What about me?" Denton asked.
" I don't think anyone cares." Spot hissed at him, and then turned back to Rave.
" I can't do anything," She shrugged.
" Now, everybody can do something." Spot shook his head not believing a word she was saying. " There's on thing I can do-no, forget it, it's way too embarrassing." Rave shook her head trying to get them to stop pushing the subject.
" You ever seen Wild Kingdom? I mean that guy's been doing that show for thirty years." Spot replied.
" Okay, but you have to swear to God you won't laugh. I can't believe I'm actually doing this." She half muttered to herself as she dug in her purse and pulled out her lipstick. She opened it and carefully placed it between her breasts and bent her head down and applied it from her cleavage. She lifted her head up to expose her lips, the lipstick perfectly applied. Everyone clapped but, Spot, who clapped sarcastically and slow.
" All right, great! Where'd you learn to do that?" Jack asked shocked.
" Camp, seventh grade," Rave blushed.
" That was great, Rave-my image of you is totally blow." Spot smirked.
" You're a shit! Don't do that to her, you swore to God you wouldn't laugh!" Chord yelled.
"Am I laughing?" Spot asked looking at her.
" You fucking prick," Jack shook his head.
" You jerk!" Curly Fry threw a book at him as he dodged it and turning to Jack, their words obviously hitting home.
" What do you care what I think, anyway? I don't even count, right? I could disappear forever and it wouldn't make any difference-I may as well not even exist at this school, remember?" He said, then turning to Rave. " And you.don't like me anyway!"
" You know, I have just as many feelings as you do and it hurts just as much when somebody steps all over them!" Rave shouted at him.
" God, you're so pathetic!" he yelled in fury. " Don't you ever..EVER, compare yourself to me! Okay? You got everything, and I got shit. Fuckin' Rapunzel, right? School would probably fucking shut down if you didn't show up! "Queenie isn't here!" I like those earrings, Rave."
" Shut up," Rave ordered quietly.
" Are those real diamonds, Rave?"
" Shut up!" she yelled angrily.
" I bet they are."
" Shut."
" did you work for the money for those earrings?"
" Your mouth!" Rave screamed as Spot kept on at it.
" Or did your daddy buy those?"
" Shut up!" Rave screamed again, now beginning to cry.
" I bet he bought those of you! I bet those are a Christmas gift! Right? You know what I got for Christmas this year? It was a banner fuckin' year the old Conlon family! I got a carton of cigarettes. The old man grabbed me and said: 'Hey, Some up, Spotty!' Okay, so go home an' cry to your daddy, don't cry here, okay?" Spot yelled at her as Rave sobbed.
" My God, are we gonna be like our parents?" Jack suddenly asked.
" Not me.ever." Rave replied threw sobs.
" I'm already heading there.my dad was a compulsive gambler. He lost everything, and my mom took us and left him." Race said solemnly.
" It's unavoidable, it just happens," Chord sighed.
" What happens?" Rave asked.
" When you grow up, your heart dies." Chord answered.
" Who cares?" Spot yawned as Chord started to tear up.
" I care." Chord hissed.
" I never wanna be like my mother," Curly Fry shook her head. " I wanna be like my brother. He doesn't care. he didn't turn into my parents."
" Then he was lucky," Race looked at her.
" Um, I was just thinking, I mean. I know it's kind of weird time, but, I was wondering, um, what is gonna happen to us on Monday? When we're all together again? I mean, I consider you guys my friends, I'm not wrong, am I?" David asked.
" No." Jack shook his head.
" So, so on Monday.what happens?" He repeated.
" Are we still friends, you mean? If we're friends now, that is?" Rave asked.
" Yeah."
" I know this answer," Curly Fry shook her head and looked away.
" Do you want the truth?" Rave asked David.
" Yeah, I want the truth,"
" I don't think so." Rave shook her head.
" Well, do you mean all of us, or just Spot?" Chord asked.
" With all of you." Rave answered.
" That's real nice attitude, Rave!" Jack shouted.
" Oh, be honest, Jack! If David came walking up to you in the hall on Monday, what would you do? I mean picture this, you're there will all the sports. I know exactly what you'd do. You'd say hi to him and when he left you'd cut him all up so your friends wouldn't think you really like him!" Rave shot back at him.
" No way!" Jack disagreed.
" 'Kay, what if I cam up to you?" Chord asked.
" Same exact thing!" Rave half laughed.
" Yeah, well I wouldn't do that! I don't care!" Curly Fry shouted.
" That's because you're an outcast anyway!" Rave shot back at Curly Fry.
" You're a bitch!" Spot screamed at him.
" Why, 'cause I'm telling the truth, that makes me a bitch?"
" No! 'Cause you know how shitty that is to do to someone! And you don't got the balls to stand up to your friends and tell 'em that you're gonna like who you wanna like!" Spot yelled back.
" Okay, what about you, you hypocrite! Why don't you take Chord to one of your heavy metal vomit parties? Or take David out to the parking lot at lunch to get high? What about Denton? What about Jack for that matter, what about me?"
" You left out Race and I deary," Curly Fry glared at her.
" What would your friends say if we were walking down the hall together? They'd laugh their asses off and you'd probably tell them you were doing it with me so they'd forgive you for being seen with me." Rave went on.
" Don't you ever talk about my friends! You don't know any of my friends, you don't look at any my friend and you certainly wouldn't condescend to speak to any of my friends, so you just stick to the things you know, shopping, nail polish and your father's BMW and poor-rich-drunk mother in the Caribbean!" Spot screamed at her.
" Shut up!" Rave started sobbing again.
" And as far as being concerned about what's gonna happen when you and I walk down the hallways at school, you can forget it! 'Cause it's never gonna happen! Just bury your head in the said.and wait for your fuckin' prom!" Spot continued to yell at her.
" I hate you!" Rave snapped.
" Yeah? Good!" Spot yelled back as he crossed his arms and sat there.
" Then I assume Chord, Curly Fry, Race and I are better people than you guys, huh? Us weirdo's." David said. " Do you, would you do that to me?" he asked looking at them.
" I wouldn't either," Denton sighed.
" I don't have any friends," Chord looked down.
" My friends don't care," Curly Fry smiled at him.
" Neither do mine," Race shuffled through his cards.
" I just wanna tell, each of you, that I wouldn't do that.I wouldn't an I will not! 'cause I think that's real shitty." David shook his head.
" Your friends wouldn't mind because they look up to us." Rave replied as David laughed.
" You're so conceited, Rave. You're so conceited. You're so, like, full or yourself, why are you like that?" David asked as Rave started to cry again.
" I'm not saying that to be conceited! I hate it! I hate having to go along with everything my friends say!"
" Well then, why do you do it?" David asked.
" I don't know.I don't, you don't understand. You don't. You're not friends with the same kind of people that Jack and I are friends with! You know, you just don't understand the pressure that they can put on you!" David started at her, his mouth wide open.
" I don't understand what? You think I don't understand pressure, Rave? Well fuck you! Fuck you!" David buried his head in his arm as he started to cry. " You know why I'm here, today? Do you? I'm here because Mr. Kloppman found a gun in my locker."
" Why would you have a gun in your locker?" Jack asked shocked.
" I tried. You pull the fuckin' truck on it an the light's s'posed to go on.and it didn't go on, I mean.I.."
" What's the gun for, David?" Jack repeated.
" Just forget it," David shook his head.
" You brought it up, man!" Jack pointed out.
" I can't have an F, I can't it and I know my parents can't have it! Even if I aced the rest of the semester, I'm sill only a B. And everything's ruined for me!"
" David.." Curly Fry shook her head, a tear running down her cheek.
" Oh, David.." Rave sighed with pity as David kicked a chair over.
" So I considered my options, you know?"
" No! Killing yourself is not an option!" Rave shook her head.
" Well, I didn't do it, did I? Now, I don't think so." David looked at her with a tear stricken face.
" Was it a hand gun?" Chord asked.
" No, it was a flare gun, went off in my locker."
" Really?" Jack asked, starting to laugh.
" It's no funny." David shook his head as everyone started to laugh. " Yes it is.fuckin' elephant was destroyed!"
" You wanna know what I did to get in here? Nothing.I didn't have anything better to do!" Chord told them as they started to laugh. " You're laughing at me." Chord looked at them."
" No!" Jack giggled.
" Yes you are!" Chord laughed.
" I'm here cause I bet a teacher on a race, and lost. I never paid him so he gave me detention." Race confessed.
" I wrote on the bathroom wall that Ms. Larkson was a slut, and she walked in." Curly Fry confessed as well.
" That was you?" Rave laughed as Curly Fry nodded. " That was so funny. All the girls were talking about that. They tried so hard to wash it off, but it didn't!"
" Yea, they have to paint the whole bathroom over again!"
" Why are you here?" David asked looking at Denton, who blushed.
" I'm here, because." he looked down at his notebook, and licked the his upper lip and handed it over to David. David flipped through it, a confused expression on his face.
" These are naked drawings." he gawked. " Of us, and mostly.boys and- me?" David asked dropping the book as Jack picked it up and passed it around. Denton sat there blushing and smiled at David.
" Yeah," he nodded. " The teachers agreed that it would do me good, to sit in on you guys," he shrugged. " Imagine that, a student teacher that happens to be a pedophile, stuck in a room with very attractive people," he looked at David and winked. " and that's s'posed to fix me." He shook his head. " Maybe I should be a write for play-girl or something." They sat there looking at him all of them glancing at their naked picture.
" How did you know that I had that pierced?" Curly Fry asked looking down at her naked picture at the breast.
" The little indent there," Denton pointed as she covered up her chest.
" Gross." she said tossing the notebook to Denton, but it landed back in front of David.
* * *
Shortly after David walked into the office and put a record in and started to play music as they all danced around the room.
" Come on," Curly Fry grabbed Race's hand as they started to prance around.
Spot in the mean time was heading back through the heating duct, incase Pulitzer was to make another surprise visit to the closet. When the song was over, Denton, David, Rave, Race, Curly Fry, Jack and Chord sat on the railing.
" David?" Rave asked looking at him.
" Yeah?" he asked.
" Are you gonna write your paper?" she asked sweetly.
" Yeah, why?" he asked.
" Well, it's kinda a waste for all of us to write our paper, don't you think?"
" Oh, but that's what Pulitzer wants us to do."
" True, but I think we'd all kinda say the same thing."
" You just don't want to write your paper.right?"
" True, but, you're the smartest, right?"
" Oh well." David smiled with pride.
" We trust you." Rave smiled as David looked at everyone who nodded at him with approval.
" I'll help you," Denton offered.
" All right, I'll do it, but with your help." He pointed to Denton, who blushed back.
" Great," Rave smiled.
" You, come here," Curly Fry called looking at Race and heading off to the back section of the library.
" What?" Race asked, hopping off the railing.
" I saw you looking at the drawing Denton did of me," she smiled.
" So?" he asked.
" Well." she looked down sheepishly. " You wanna see how accurate that drawing is?" she asked as Race raised an eyebrow, and tossed his cards out of his hands and followed Curly Fry back to the back section of the library.
Rave looked over at Chord.
" Come on," she said smiled hopping off the railing.
" Where're we going?" Chord asked.
" Come one!" Rave smiled as Chord followed her. They sat down in another part of the library as Rave pulled out her make up and started to put make-up on Chord. "Don't be afraid," she tried to hush Chord who was squirming around.
" Don't stick that in my eye!" Chord shouted.
" I'm not sticking it, just close.just go like that." Rave demonstrated by closing her eyes. Chord mimicked her as Rave put the make up on.
" Good!" Rave smiled as Chord squealed. "You know, you really do look a lot better without all that black shit on your eyes.
" Hey. I like that black shit." Chord snapped.
" This looks a lot better..look up." Rave ordered.
* * * Back in the other part of the library, Denton and David sat there talking about what to write. Jack sat there staring off into space.
* * *
" Please, why are you being so nice to me?" Chord asked as Rave came at her with another make-up brush.
" 'Cause you're letting me," Rave smiled.
* * * David and Denton smiled at each other and then looked down at the paper as David started to write. Jack sat there, still deep in thought.
* * *
Spot was sitting back in the closet once again when the door suddenly opened as Rave slipped in and shut the door behind her.
" You lost?" Spot asked staring at her as Rave smiled at him. Suddenly, Spot smiled widely, like never before.
* * *
Back in the library David put the finishing touches on the paper. Jack looked up and nearly fell back when he saw the newly made over Chord standing in front of him. Chord started to walk towards him when she looked over to see David staring at her with his mouth wide open. She glared at him as Denton put his hand under David's chin and closed his mouth for him.
" Cool," Jack smiled.
" Thank you!" she blushed.
* * *
Back in the closet Rave leaned in and kissed Spot. She stopped and looked at him.
" Why'd you do that?" he asked.
" 'Cause I knew you wouldn't." she smiled.
" You know how you said before, how your parents used you to get back at each other. wouldn't I be outstanding in that capacity?" he smiled.
" Where you really disgusted about what I did with my lipstick?" she questioned.
" Truth?"
" Truth."
" No." Spot replied as he nodded his head at the same time.
* * *
Back in the library David looked back over at his paper and kissed it. Just then Denton grabbed his face, and pulled him in for a big kiss. David pulled back and looked at Denton, and then over at Jack and Chord who weren't paying attention. He shrugged and leaned back in and kissed Denton.
" What happened to you?" Jack asked looking at Chord in awe.
" Why? Rave did! What's wrong?" she snapped.
" Nothing's wrong, it's just so different. I can see your face." He bushed a little piece of hair behind her ear.
" Is that good, or bad?"
" It's good!" Jack smiled and laughed as Chord smiled back.
* * *
All eight of them headed down the hall towards the front doors. They stood and looked at Weasel who was now sweeping the hallways, noticing a letter and picking it up. David smiled and nodded at him.
" See ya David," Weasel smiled.
" Hey Weasel." David muttered as he walked pass.
" See you next Saturday," Spot smiled at Weasel.
" You bet," Weasel nodded.
* * *
Before David got outside, Denton handed him a piece of paper.
" Something for you to remember me by," Denton smiled as David opened it up to see a drawing of himself with Denton's arms wrapped around him. " If you ever want to. hang out or something, give me a call. Maybe I could help you with shop," Denton smiled. David nodded and headed out of the school, placing the picture in his jacket pocket. He stepped out into the cool air and headed for his dad's car and got in. His dad gave him a weak smile as they took off.
Curly Fry walked over to the bike rack with Race and leaned against the side of the building.
" Well?" she asked looking at him.
" Well, it was better than the drawing," Race smiled. Curly Fry looked down.
" You ain't gonna call me, are ya?" she asked.
" Maybe," Race shrugged, pulling his bike out of the rack.
" The odds?" she asked, knowing his was a betting man.
" From wear I'm standing, it's a good bet." He smiled as he got on his bike head pedaled away. Curly Fry heard a horn honk and turned to see her brother in the front seat.
" Move your ass! 'Come on!" Curly Fry smiled and ran to her brother's car and got in.
Jack looked at Chord and smiled, and pulled her in for a kiss. They looked into each other's eyes as her mother honked the horn. She grabbed at patch on his jacket and ripped it off, smiling and placing it in her pocket and got in the car as Jack's dad pulled up. His dad looked at Chord, and then at Jack.
" Let's just go," Jack said as his dad hit the gas and drove off.
Rave stood to the side of her father's car and took out one of her diamond earrings, and placed it in Spot's hand, closing it tightly around it. She leaned in and kissed him and got in the car as her father sped off. Spot stood there, and slowly opened his hand, and put the earring in his ear.
* * *
Pulitzer walked in the library to see one piece of paper sitting on one of the desks where David had been sitting. He paced over and picked it up and began to read.
" Dear Mr. Pulitzer, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong. But we think you're crazy to make an easy telling you who we think we are. You see us as you want to see us-In the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions." He read, hearing David's voice.
Spot walked towards the football field, as David's voice continued to read.
" But what we found out is that each one of us is a brain."
" .and an athlete." Jack's voice came in.
" .and a basket case."
" .a princess.."
" . a gambler."
" . a pedophile."
". a punk."
" . and a criminal," they each answered.
" Does that answer your question?" David's voice came back. " Sincerely yours, the Newsies Breakfast Club." Pulitzer stared blankly at the page as Spot walked across the football field and thrusted his fist into the air in a silent cheer.
The End.
