A love of dancing

Chapter four-: What's going on?

It took Jimmy a minute to gather himself and by the time he did, Cindy was long gone. Jimmy slowly got out from behind the bushes and walked to the side walk. His feet just carried him across the cement. No matter how hard he tried, not that he wanted to, he couldn't wipe that goofy smile off his face. All of a sudden Carl and Sheen came up behind him.

"What was with you in gym today?" Carl asked

"Yeah you were acting totally loopy." Sheen said making a crazy face

"Sheen, I think something's wrong with Jimmy..."

"Jimmy? Jimmy can you hear me! Noooo! We've lost him to the powers of the Universal Overlord!" Sheen said shaking his fists at the sky. Snapping out of his gaze Jimmy shook his head.

"Sheen, Sheen no! I'm fine...I...I think." Jimmy started to daze off agian thinking about his kiss with Cindy.

"Jimmy...You're starting to scare me." Carl said. "What's with you and Cindy. Everyone thinks that you two have something going on."

"I don't think so Carl. We just got a little...caught up in the moment you could say." Jimmy said widening his eyes then whispering. "A lot."

"So your still you?" Sheen asked and Jimmy nodded "Cool then I have to go change into my Ultra Lord costume, it's on in three hours!" Sheen ran away from them toward his house.

"Jimmy, you had me scared for a minute. I thought you actually liked Cindy!" Carl started laughing. Jimmy laughed along with him uneasily.

"Yeha right me, like Cindy? Ha! You actually thought I had a crush on Cindy Vortex?! Yeah right!" He started laughing without even realizing he laughing for real. "Me...like CIndy! Ha ha ha ha! That's rediculous!"

Carl and Jimmy walk off laughing while making fun of the poor Cindy Vortex who was quietly walking behind them....

The next day in gym class Cindy walked in with a glare on her face that scared everyone. She walked up to Jimmy and pushed him against the wall. By now everyone was staring at them.

"Cindy, what are you doing?" Jimmy questioned while laughing a little thinking she was going to kiss him agian.

"I can't believe you! You're such a...a..Grrr! You're just a big headed, know it all, JERK!"

"What are you talking about?"

"Oh I think you know!" She unpinned him and walked away with her fists in balls. Everyone simply moved out of her way.

Jimmy stood there rubbing his shoulders in pain when Libby walked up with a mean and upset look on her face like someone had just betrayed her.

"Jimmy! What the heak did you do to her?!" And with that, she stormed out after her friend to find her in the girl's room. Cindy was crying in one of the stalls. "Cindy what happend?"

"Look it's...it's complicated." Cindy sniffled through tears.

"Come on out and tell me everything that jerk Jimmy did." Cindy finaly came out and told her everything.

Later in the gym Cindy and Libby walked in and glared at Jimmy. Libby went over to her partner and started dancing sighlently. Cindy went over to Jimmy and took her position as a danser as did he. They didn't really speak at all or make eye contact. She porposly stepped on his feet a few time really hard. Both of them could feel the tension between them.

At the very end of class the gym teacher stood up on stage and announced something neither Jimy or Cindy wanted to hear.

"Listen up whimps! There will be a ball tomarrow night and you will be with your dance partner as if you were on a date! It is a formal dance so be dressy! Treat this like a real date! Dismissed!" Everyone left except Jimmy and Cindy even stayed behind for a minute. She looked back at his worried face and felt a little bad but then remembered what he did and walked out.

Jimmy was sitting in his room on his bed thinking about what he was going to do about Cindy. She had kissed him then almost slapped him! Talk about mood swings. He desided to pick up the phone and call her.

"Hello?" Cindy answered

"Cindy? Can I talk to you?"

"Nerdtron! No you can't good-bye." She came close to hanging up the phone but heard him sigh and stayed on the phone. "Okay fine...what?"

"Thank god...Look you dance with me, kiss me, then go crazy on me! What's your problem?"

"I don't have a problem, you do."

"What are you talking about?"

"Look I heard you talking to Carl. You don't like me!"

"...oh..." Jimmy said quietly

"That's it oh? Maybe we just got caught in the moment you know?"

"Yeah maybe...I guess you know it was just the dancing right?"

"Right....By the way you're a good dancer." She said blushing

"Thanks you too. So are we okay?"

"No. We still have to go to that stupid dance...together."

"Look we'll just get through that and try not to dance. Okay?"

"Yeah okay. Bye."

"Bye..." Jimmy said then hung up. "I think I just broke up with a girl I wasn't dating." He laughed at the thought but then thought about how much he loved to dance with her. Jimmy knew that there was something about her that he couldn't resist. That's what he was scared of most.

Cindy lay on her bed crying. "He didn't even apoligize...What am I going to do?" Cindy was still ferious at Jimmy. How could he not understand that she loved him. "For a genius, he's an idiot. It'll never happen..." She started bawling her eyes out and fell asleep slowly.

The night of the dance, Jimmy had invented a self driving carrige to take him and Cindy to the school. He had everything planned out so they'd have the least amount of contact possible. They'd both be able to sit facing a window and not looking at each other, they wouldn't have to talk or anything. He got into his suit and went to pick up his 'date'.

He rang her doorbell and stood facing away from the door until he heard it opne. When he turned around, his mouth dropped open in awe. She was wearing a strapless black sequin dress with high heals and a silver necklace that all went suprisingly well together. She looked drop dead goreous.

"What?" She asked smiling a little.

"Nothing...you just just just..."

"Okay then," Cindy rolled her eyes and walked out to see the carrige. "Wow...That's what we're taking?"

"Yeah sure."

They got in the carrige with little contact and Cindy looked out the window ignoring Jimmy. He just couldn't take his eyes off of her though. He tried...Then he just had to say something.

"You look...really nice tonight." He said looking at her.

"I know." She said not looking at him. Even though he couldn't see it, she was smiling. "Look the less you talk to me the less angry I'll be with you."

"You're still mad with me?"

"Yes." She turned toward him "Look! You know as well as I do that it wasn't just the dancing that got to us!"

"..." Jimmy just sat quietly for a little bit trying to think of something to say. "I know that..." She huffed and turned away.

Cindy's hand was on the seat inbetween them. Before he could stop himself...his own hand glided over hers. She didn't even turn to look at him. Cindy felt frozen. A single tear rolled down her cheek before she turned to him. Jimmy slightly squeezed her hand. He looked at her then moved closer. As an insticnt Cindy rested her head on his shoulder.

"What's going on with us, Cindy? What's going on?"

"I don't know..." She responded then looked up at him. Her lips gentily touched his. Within seconds the kiss turned into a passonate one where his tongue touched hers. Cindy broke it then turned herself away from him and crossed her arms trying to ignore the electricity that still flowed through her body.

"What is going on?" Jimmy whispered