Disclaimer: I do not own Jimmy Neutron. Jimmy Neutron and all related characters are trademarks of DNA Productions and Nickelodeon.

Author's note: Well, in case you didn't notice, Dr. Silverman was a phycologist in the movie "The Mask" (1994) starred by Ben Stein, the same guy who name was in JN episode "Normal Boy" instead of 'Drool Monkey', 'Normal', and 'Albert Einstein'. He also made the voice of the over-payed clown in JN episode "Hypno-Birthday to you".

- CHAPTER 3 - "Obstacles"

Continued Flashback

At the school, 3 PM. Cindy was walking home with Libby.

"He's a complete asshole and now I hate him!" said an angry Cindy.

"Are you sure you want to talk like this about Jimmy?" questioned a still shocked Libby.

"I'm a 99 sure! He doesn't care about me!" replied Cindy. "Besides, I'm done. I gave up. Who knows what he have been doing all the time I was worried about him. Do you know? I bet he was all the time in his... stupid lab making... psycho weird things that always fail and... and... You know what? It doesn't matter to me anymore. ". As she said that, her face changed angry to sad. Tears went down her face.

"What about the other 1?" said Libby, trying to confort her.

"Wha-The other 1? I-I don't know. I guess I can figure it out, but you know that a 99 is excellent... well, that was a thing he said one time. When he was like the guy I met." said Cindy.

"It was 95... But yes, what's the difference? It's still an excellent... Look, girl, maybe you should go to his house to talk to him, try at least. You know, when he came to his lab yesterday and in his Hover Car, I saw an expression in his face, that I didn't like it too much..." said Libby.

"What kind of expression?" asked Cindy.

"Like destroyed, blow up... He didn't even wanted to talk about the hole stuff... even with Sheen and Carl, you know they are his best friends. He said he was not in the mood or something, and did you notice that he didn't go to school today?" replied Libby.

"Well... No, I was in other kind of things to notice that. Besides, whe don't share our classes anymore. Even our classrooms are different. It's a total mess, and he's a total mess too!" said Cindy, more sad.

"I'm sure you didn't want to leave him..." said Libby.

"No, but I had to..." said Cindy as she took a deep breath. "You see, he's not the same. He's not the kind, generous, helpful guy I met. He's a total disaster now. A stupid, useless, good-for-nothing.... Well, you get the idea. I don't even know if he's a genius. Because I don't know if genius people do things like this. He dropped me first. Like garbage. Like a skunk." said Cindy, as she was trying to stop crying. "You know what? Let's talk about another thing. I don't want to remember him anymore".

"It's ok, Cindy. What do you want to talk about?" said Libby.

"Well, I was in school... and I met this guy..." said Cindy, showing Libby a picture, as her sad face was gone, changing to an ear-to-ear smile.

"Wow! Is he from your classroom or something?" asked Libby, looking at the picture and forgetting about Jimmy.

"Yes... and he's so cute. He's not very smart, but he's "cool". Just like Nick." said Cindy.

"Yeah, well, Nick moved to another city, like this girl, Betty. When he discovered that you were with Jimmy, he felt bad and he ran like a rat." said Libby, laughing a little.

"Yeah, when Betty she discovered the same, she ran, too" said Cindy, but she didn't laugh.

"And what's his name?" asked Libby.

"His name is Paul Sanders. He's also called 'The Rock'." said Cindy.

"I can see that! Look at his muscles! Is he working in a gym or something like that?" asked Libby.

"No, he's more like a punk. You see? His hair. His piercings. And he's tattooed. In here... here... and... here..." replied Cindy, indicating Libby the tatoos in the picture.

"Wait a minute, girl! A punk? And you're going to hang around with a punk? I don't think you should do that." said Libby.

"Why? What do you mean?" asked Cindy.

"If he's a punk, you'll becoming a punk, too. And you'll have to wear those tattoos and piercings. BLARGH!" said a disgusted Libby.

"Oh, please!" said Cindy, laughing. "Are you serious? You know me, I'm not someone too easy to manipulate." said Cindy.

"I know that. But I warn you, girl. If you want to go out with him, you'll have to be like him" said Libby.

Cindy looked at Libby and saw in her eyes that she was a little corcern.

"It's ok, Libby, I'll handle from here. Do you want to stay and spent the night with me?" asked Cindy.

"Sure, why not?" replied Libby.

-

Jimmy went to the school to try to reach Cindy, but he was too late. The school doors were closed. Also everyone left.

"Damn! Why I didn't use the Hover Car? Oh, yeah, right! It needed more gasoline." thought Jimmy.

Suddenly, he felt like someone was behind him.

Jimmy turned over. He saw in front of him a guy just about his size, pointy hair, leather jacket and jeans. His muscled arms were showing a lot of tattoos and his piercings were in ears, lips and nose. And even some ones in his eyebrowns.

"Hey, man. Did you see a blond girl, short?" said the man.

"No, they all left. Wait! Blonde girl?" said Jimmy.

"Yeah, her name is Suzie... no, Cindy." said the man, trying to remember.

"She just left, and by the time I got here, I guess she left like about 23 minutes" said Jimmy.

"Huh, uh?" said the man, blanky, trying to follow Jimmy's words.

"What exactly do you want? Who are you?" asked Jimmy.

"Well, you see, I'm Paul Sanders, people call me 'The Rock'" said the man. "And like, I was looking for her. She's a beautiful girl and she's smart, you know what I'm saying? And who are you, anyway, like, his boyfriend or something?".

"No, I'm not his boyfriend. I mean, not anymore. We broke up... well, in certain way, she left me." said a sad Jimmy.

"Oh, that's bad, man... Well, gotta go. Later!" said the man, Paul.

"Yeah, sure. Later!" said Jimmy.

Jimmy was going to leave when he realized something.

"Wait a minute!" he thought. "I think I saw those kind of guys before. Of course! They're punks! And this guy said Cindy's a beautiful girl and smart?? Oh, no! My dream is coming true! She's going to be a punk, too! I gotta stop her!".

Jimmy ran as fast as he could to try to go to Cindy's house first. But he saw a motorcycle on the street and parked in front of Cindy's house. He also saw Cindy and the man, Paul, going sitting on the stairs and laughing at each other.

"I got to talk to her, and quick!" said Jimmy.