Hmm...I think I'm gonna like doing this story. And FINALLY a story that I will finish. Most definitely. Tell me what you think, I love hearing it!
Disclaimer: Haha, you actually think I could own Jimmy Neutron? Haha, that makes me giggle.
If I could go back
The crystal snowflakes fell gracefully onto the window at Cindy's house. Looking out into the blurry whirlwind of ice crystals, she could barely make out the houses across the street. Snow covered everything the eye could see, near and far. It'd been snowing for hours.
It'd been 6 years since she finished college and she'd gone on to fulfill her dreams of becoming a lawyer. After she got out college, she got the offer of a lifetime. She now worked with one of the biggest companies in Ohio.
After high school she'd left the town of Retroville to attend college, but she did stay in her home state. Ohio.
She'd lost touch with the people closest to her. Libby and Sheen had gotten married and moved to Pennsylvania after they'd learned that Libbypregnant.And Jimmy, who knows? At the end of their senior year of high school, Jimmy and Cindy had gotten into a huge fight and vowed never to speak to each other again. They'd been boyfriend and girlfriend for a long while and then this...
Almost everyone in the senior class thought it was a big mistake that the two were making. After being named "Sweetest high school sweethearts" in the yearbook, everyone felt the break-up of Cindy and Jimmy would be one of the biggest mistakes of their lives.
They'd been together since the end of their sophomore year. Splitting up only once and still getting back together quite quickly. Until thatonetragic day, May 27th 1990...
Betty Quinlin had always been jealous of Jimmy and Cindy's relationship. She'd wanted to be with Jimmy ever since the 7th grade, though she never made a move on him. Silently stalking Jimmy to school in the morning and home in the evening, she fell deeper and deeper into infatuation and obsession. And deeper and deeper into jealousy...
One day she came up with a plan. Not the most complex, but just enough to work. On the bathroom wall at the very back of the rooms, right by the last stall, she'd written the words "Neutron with a new girl?" in black sharpie marker and below it, in red, she wrote "Definitely".
Cindy had always been slightly suspicious of Betty, even before her and Jimmy got together. Actually, she was suspicious of anyone that she thought of as a threat to her and Jimmy's relationship. So seeing that little message only put her more on the edge of her seat, just waiting for someone to make a wrong move.
It was only slightly after 1 pm when Cindy walked down the halls, hall pass in one arm, on her way to the bathroom. That's when Betty's plan went into action. Hidden behind one wall, stood Betty. She'd slipped a note into Jimmy's locker saying,
"It's an emergency, and I need to talk to you. Meet me by the snack machines upstairs in the hallway with rooms 101-115 at 1:15"
Naturally, Jimmy being his good-hearted self, wanted to see what was wrong and what he could do to help. He came down the corridor at just about 1:15 and approached Betty.
"Betty? You sent me the note? What's wrong"
Meanwhile, Cindy came closer and closer to the edge of the wall, behind which Betty and Jimmy stood.
"Well, I needed to..tell you something, Jimmy..." Betty stalled, waiting for the right moment.
This would be perfect for Betty's plan. She'd told Cindy to meet her in the bathroom (the one located in the hallway with rooms 101-115)to pay her back the lunch money she'd borrowed so many times before. Betty never remembered her lunch money and her debt to Cindy eventually rose to 26.75.
"Oh Jimmy, it's so horrible" Betty urged crocodile tears to fall from her eyes, and they did. She turned away from him dramatically and forced a sob.
"Betty" Jimmy looked at her concerned. "Come on, don't cry. What happened?"
"Oh Jimmy" Betty wailed and pulled him close to her. He reluctantly (and still quite confused) gave her a reassuring hug.
And just at that moment, Cindy rounded the corner. Betty glanced at her, and then pulled Jimmy's face towards her own and into a quite forceful and passionate kiss.
"Jimmy" Cindy screamed.
Jimmy yanked himself away from Betty, glaring at her for a moment, and then turned to Cindy. "It's not what you think! She-"
Betty stepped to the side and watched in vindictive amusement.
"Don't you eventry and lie to me! I saw everything!" Cindy held back her tears and bit her lip. Then to Betty"And you! Don't you ever touch him again! You two-cent, trailer park hussy!" Cindy went over to Betty and smacked the grin right off her face.
"It's ok; I'll get what I want..." Betty said with a smirk and walked off down the other end of the hallway.
"Cindy, I'm so sorry. If you'll just let me explain, I-" He was cut off with a smack in the face twice as hard as what Betty got.
"I don't wanna hear anything you have to say" Cindy pushed him into the lockers andmanaged to trip over his own footand fall.
"I should've known you'd do this to me! Forget it! I hate you" With that, she just kicked him in the side and ran around the corner and back down the hall to class, still trying to hold back every tear but failing.
So they never made up after that. Jimmy didn't know what to do and every time he'd try and talk to Cindy, she'd brush him off. Or tell him off. Libby and Sheen, and Carl and Brittany, they all tried to sort things out. They'd bring the 2 of them to one house and try and help them work through it. They offered advice, but nothing was done. At all.
Years passed and now here she was. Lost inthe pile of paperwork that sat on her desk and staring out the window of her house.
The fire crackled across the room and Cindy turned her gaze to it. Starring deeply into the fiery embers and flames that rolled up and down in the fireplace.
Over the years she'd yearned to go back, to go back and listen to Jimmy. She never did find out what had actually happened that day. Sometimes she was dying to know; sometimes she thought she'd die if she found out.
But now there was nothing left for her to lose. Her parents had died in a car crash 2 years after Cindy had left for college. She'd lost contact with all of her other friends from school. Basically, she had no one but the stern-faced lawyers of her new world and the fire embers in her fireplace and the ice crystals in the wind...
I personally think that was a pretty good first chapter, but hey! Who am I to judge? That's up to you, so go on, go ahead and review. You know you want to ;)
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