So this is where we left off. Cindy crying her eyes out on her pillow. Feeling sorry for herself, for being so mean to a nice Jimmy. She knew that she could be selfish sometimes but what she did was so much more then she meant. She cried so much that all you could hear was her crying, even above the heavy rain outside. She soon grew tired and cried herself to sleep.
She woke up the next morning to the sound off her alarm clock. She felt something strange on her pillow. It was wet. Then the whole series of event came back to her. She let a few tears escape her eyes. She then thought that she would do what she did yesterday. She would try and forget about Neutron.
'Yeah' she thought 'I don't need Neutron and I'm not letting him bring down my sprit. But maybe I should try and apologize to him.'
She went on with her morning as usual. She took a shower, put on some clothes, ate breakfast and went out to go to school. She decided to take the locket with her so she could find the secret that Jimmy was talking about. As she went out, she saw that Jimmy was not out yet.
'Of course. Neutron wouldn't come to the bus. He never does,' she thought and walked to the bus stop.
As she got on, she looked around for Libby. She spotted her with Sheen, who was still trying to give her a nickname.
"How about my Super- Ultraqueen."
"Sheen for the last time. I don't want a nickname!"
But Sheen wouldn't take no for answer. So he just turned back around in his seat and though about good nicknames.
"Hey Libby," said Cindy walking up.
"Oh. Hey girl. I tried to call you yesterday for your birthday, before you and your parents went out, but you didn't pick up. I guess I missed you."
"Yeah. I was having so much fun with them."
"Before I forget," she reached into her backpack and pulled out a present wrapped in wrapping paper "here's your present."
"Thanks Libby," she said as she hugged her.
She opened it and it was the new Men Pretending to be Boys CD.
"How did you get this Libby? It's not supposed to be out for another two months."
"Jimmy helped me. He got everything off the internet and made the case himself."
At the sound of Jimmy's name, Cindy gasped a little but, not enough for anybody to hear.
'He really did a lot for me.'
"Why would Neutron do that?" asked Cindy when she got her composure.
"Why does Jimmy do anything? He probably just felt like it."
As Cindy thought about that, she didn't notice Libby looking at her locket.
"Where did you get that locket from?"
"Got it as a birthday present."
"Who gave it to you?"
"Neutron."
"WHAT JIMMY GAVE THAT TO YOU?!!"
"Yeah. I'm surprised about that to."
"He must have paid a fortune for it," she said while holding it in her hand.
"Not really. Remember that sapphire necklace my parents gave me."
"Yeah."
"Well Neutron remade it to this."
"Man, that's so weird."
"Yeah, I know."
"It was as if he was your boyfriend."
"DON'T EVEN JOKE ABOUT THAT, LIBBY!"
"You got to admit though, it is suspicious."
Cindy just thought about that on the ride to school. As she exited the bus, she looked around again to see if Jimmy was there. He wasn't. She just went on her way to the classroom, with Libby by her side.
She sat and talked with Libby for ten minutes before Jimmy came in. But something was wrong with this Jimmy. His eyes were blood- shot, he had a scowl that terrified a few people and his fists were clinched really tied that Cindy was sure that blood would come out any minute. His hair wasn't in his usual style. It looked like it wasn't even combed. It was flat and a little messy in the back, his clothes weren't ironed and he didn't have the usual twinkle in his eyes.
"Good morning, Jimmy," said Carl shakily.
"What's so good about it?" he asked as he walked past Carl.
"Well, it's a beautiful spring day."
"I'll change that," Jimmy said as he pulled out an invention that looked like a pen from his pocket. He pointed it out the window, clicked the button and out came a blue beam. After a few seconds, clouds came and it started to rain.
"Finally. And invention that works Neutron," said Nick coolly.
While the other students laughed, Jimmy ran up to him fast and put the pen right up to Nick's throat while looking right in his face.
"I'm in a bad mood today, Dean and I can make this pen into a laser that will make sure that it will hurt to breath and talk for the rest of your life. Do you really want to take that chance?"
"C...Calm down, N...Neutron. I was just p...playing with you," said Nick shakily while putting his hands up.
Jimmy put the laser down slowly but still looked Nick in the face. Nick walked away slowly and when he was far enough he ran out of the classroom.
"I wonder what's wrong with Jimmy," asked Libby. "It has to be something bad if he scared Nick."
Jimmy walked by and try to get to his seat but, Sheen stepped in front of him.
"Hey Jim. What's up?"
"Move out of the way, Sheen."
"I just wanted to say hi."
"Hi. Now bye."
"Come Jim. Talk."
"Sheen. You're my friend. But I want hesitate to hurt you," said Jimmy tapping his pocket to where the laser is.
Sheen moved from Jimmy quickly and sat down to his seat. It was now time that Cindy said something.
"Come on, Neutron. He was just trying to talk to you."
Jimmy just turned his back on her and moved back to his seat.
"No smart comeback. No threatening me with your laser. Not even a word. I guess I finally made Neutron know whose better."
Jimmy turned around looked at her. "I don't want to talk and I especially don't want to talk and see you. But if it's a threat you want." He looked at a desk and punched a big hole in it. "How's that for a threat, Vortex," he said and turned his back to go to his seat.
Everyone was shocked, partly because Jimmy never threaten anyone like that and because they were surprised of his strength.
"Good morning, class," said Ms. Fowl coming in. She looked around and saw that no one saw her come in. They were looking at something in the front room. She followed their gaze and saw that a desk was broken.
"Who broke that desk?!"
Jimmy raised his hand and said "I did."
"Go down to the principal's office!"
Jimmy just looked at her hard and she whimpered back.
"Of course you don't have to," she whispered.
Jimmy stopped looking at her and looked down at his desk. Again everyone was surprised at Jimmy's attitude. They never thought that Jimmy, the boy genius, know- it-all, goodie- too-shoes, would ever threaten a teacher.
The day went on as usual with Ms. Fowl boring lectures. As the lectures went on, Cindy absent mindedly played with her locket while she was writing notes trying to find the surprise that Jimmy meant. Half the class was asleep by the time the bell rung for lunch. Cindy decided to talk to Jimmy while at lunch. When she got there, she saw him at a table all by himself. She walked there slowly, feeling the gazes of people. She wasn't even three feet away from the table until she heard his voice.
"What do you want, Vortex?" he said while looking down at his food.
She stopped, as she took a deep breath people around became quiet to listen and she said, "I came here to apologize."
"Somehow, I highly doubt that," he said with no emotion.
"I really did."
"Before I forget, did you figure out that little surprise in that locket?"
When Cindy signaled her head no, Jimmy chuckled a bit.
"You know I really have to thank you, Vortex. You taught me that people are thankless, arrogant, selfish creatures that only think of themselves first and others last."
"No, their not."
"Let me give you some examples. Sam is always bitter and shows no one and affection. Nick always pushes people down just to make himself feel better. And this one kid I know.
"He tried to act nice to this one girl for her birthday but all she did was complained and blamed him for everything that went wrong .He took all the abuse but after too much of it he just couldn't take it anymore and threw the girl's gift in her face and said sarcastically 'HAPPY BIRTHDAY' and stormed off."
He sighed a deep sigh and said "There's nothing you can do to change that kid's mind, Cindy. You've gone too far."
After that Cindy ran out of the cafeteria and into the girls' washroom.