Disclaimer: I don't own Jimmy Neutron.
CindyI awoke the next morning in an extremely bad mood, slamming drawers and doors, and throwing things everywhere. If Neutron could be cruel and hateful, so could I. At the time I had thought we would forever hate each other from that day forward. I was sick and tired of people toying with my emotions—I couldn't take it anymore! How dare he tell me I'm annoying and a pain. If anything, he's the one that's annoying! No one can ever understand a word he says except for me, and even at times, I don't even get what he's saying.
Let's just say if I were to even see him at all that day, I'd verbally tear him apart.
"Neutron, you're going down!" I yelled at the top of my voice with the sound of my blaring radio in the background. I found the loudest heavy metal song I could find to drown out the rage I felt inside.
My hair and clothes were a complete mess that day and I didn't even care. I was wearing a black halter top and jeans and my hair was completely frizzy. Looks were hardly important to me anymore; I was a rebel and nothing was going to stop me. All thought and logic totally escaped my train of thought. I wanted to be alone and if anyone stood in my way, there would most definitely be trouble.
Little did I know when I left the house that I would find trouble staring back at me. I didn't even know where I was going or cared—I wanted to escape. Imagine to my surprise as I shut the front door behind me that I was face to face with the last person I wanted to see.
"Cindy?" he asked, eyeing my ridiculous outfit.
"What do you want, Neutron?"
He fidgeted nervously before he could answer me. "I thought—"
"I haven't got all day! What is it!"
His concerned expression turned into one of complete frustration.
"I wanted to talk to you!"
"There's nothing to talk about! Get out of my way!" I shouted, moving him aside.
"I'm not leaving until we talk, whether you like it or not. Please hear me out for once!"
I turned around with a death stare in my eyes. "I've heard you out, and you know what I think?"
All he could do was stare in my eyes. "I've heard you out, and you know what I think?"
All he could do was give me a blank stare that only fueled the fire even more so. I continued.
"I think you are a self-centered manipulative jerk with no sense of any rational thought! There's way more to life than mathematical terms and scientific concepts. You want to problem solve your way out of love and relationships. Love is not a science—it's not even math! It's emotion, trust…understanding! It's just wanting to be with that person for no reason at all because you love them. It's showing that person each and every day that you care about them no matter how many faults that person has!"
He just looked at me with his mouth hung wide open, surprised at the speech that took me months of great courage to say.
"You might be a genius mathematically and scientifically, but you don't have a clue about how I once felt about you."
"Cindy—"
"Save it. I don't ever want to speak to you again. And if you even think about crossing my path, I'll—"
Cutting me off, he stepped toward me and brushed some of the stray hair away from my face. Then he put his hand on my cheek and leaned forward to kiss me.
My face began to turn extremely red and I glared at him angrily. In a fit of rage, I balled my left fist up and punched him in the face.
"Don't even think about trying anything, Neutron! I'm done with you!"
I quickly turned and ran off with tears stinging my eyes. I was finished with Retroville, with Jimmy…with everything. I didn't look back.
Jimmy
The day before I vowed to stay out of Cindy's way.
I couldn't. I had to talk to her.
Something inside me told me that I had to make things right with her because deep down inside, I had feelings for her…I was just too afraid to show them.
Reality finally hit me after Cindy's long explanation about what a relationship is truly about. I was too afraid to admit she was right.
I've spent long exhausting days in my lab trying to figure out exactly what love really is. Experiment after experiment for weeks I did this. I wanted to be able to prove scientifically that love was only a temporary emotion that doesn't last forever. I never, ever wanted to fall in love and even made a pact with my friends that we wouldn't like girls.
After spending a few days on the island with Cindy, I completely changed my mind. I actually enjoyed being with her and I never realized she had such strong feelings for me until that point. All that time I thought she was one-sided after being tormented by her to no end. The only way I could've known the whole time that she was only hiding her true feelings was if I could subliminally read her thoughts, and she would have beat me to a pulp if I did that.
I felt so guilty about hurting her. I really wish she would've told me sooner instead of putting me through so much frustration and grief.
Those were the reasons why I wanted to talk to her that day. I wanted to show her how I felt the only way I could. That's why I thought if I could kiss her the same way Cindy had kissed me a few days ago, maybe even better, that she would know that I loved her even more than science itself.
I've watched a few sappy romance movies to know that showing can be easier than telling. The only difference is in movies you don't normally get punched in the face for trying to show someone you care.
I rubbed my face where Cindy hit me as I picked myself off the warm asphalt. I could feel the tears begin to form as I watched her heading away from town at a rapid speed. Not only had I broken her heart, but Cindy Vortex had broken mine. I wanted to call out to her or even try to catch up, but I couldn't even move, much less form the words I wanted to say to her. Like a statue, I resumed my stance crying like a lost child in an amusement park. For the first time in my life, I didn't know what to do. I didn't have the solution to this problem.
A/N: I apologize for this being so short. I kept thinking that I could make this longer, but I think I've probably exhausted this scene enough. I've been able to put some great feeling into this chapter, however, which is what I intended to do. This is the one of the many major conflicts these characters will have in the story. I've also had a rough couple of weeks, and ideas have just been hard for me to come up with. I hope I'll be able to get a new rush of situations for me to explore with this soon though. Thanks for being so patient with me during these times.
