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Chapter 3:
Harvard, Princeton, Dartmouth, Yale, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, or Penn State?
Jimmy entered his house and sighed. Cindy's words had truly hit close to home. He hadn't decided what he was going to do about the principal's proposal, but since she was the only thing holding him back, he suddenly felt he knew the answer to his decision, though he really didn't want to admit it.
He trudged to up the stairs and to his room. It had changed a bit since he was 10 years old, instead of having a planetary mobile hanging from his ceiling, there was now an intricate model of the solor system 2K5 Jim-Car-She, a galaxy only decovered by the boy genius and his friends Sheen and Carl. He had long gotten a new bed spread, he now had a black comforter with an atom symbol in red stitched on it.
His wardrobe hadn't changed much, though he had a number of different clothes, his favorite was a pair of worn out blue jeans and a plain red T-shirt.
As he sat down in front of his computer and began typing, a metalic dog came up beside him and nudged at his hand.
"Hey Goddard, I brought something for ya." He said lovingly getting an aluminum can out of his bag. Goddard barked happily as he took the treat and swalloed it whole. Jimmy's lips curved into a small grin as he handed Goddard a few screws and bolts.
"You can give those to Cynthia." He said with a wink.
Goddard barked merrily and was off on his way out of Jimmy's room to find his metal canine girl-friend.
'I guess it's a good thing I finally got around to making Goddard a poodle, I don't know what he would have done without her.' Jimmy thought to himself, a small chuckle escaping his throat.
But as soon as the happy fuzzy feeling of thinking of his canine companion and his girl friend came, it left leaving what felt like to Jimmy as a pit in the middle of his stomach as he remembered the reason he had name her Cynthia. He remembered arguing about it, telling her that it had nothing to do with her and that it was just a coincidence
"Cindy…" He said aloud as tears began to creep to his eyes. H quickly wiped them away but got up and went to the window to get some fresh air.
Cindy sprinted towards Jimmy's house. Her heart pounded harshly in her chest as she reached his front door and banged on it fiercely.
No answer. Her eyes grew fearful as she tried the door, it was unlocked. She let herself in and ran up the step to Jimmy's room, where she found him.
"Jimmy, it doesn't have to be this way!"
Jimmy, not even knowing Cindy was behind him jumped causing himself to bang his head into the window. He pulled himself back through the window and rubbed his head.
"Cindy? What are you doing here?"
Cindy looked at Jimmy's face and it looked like he had been crying; now she was sure he was going to kill himself.
"Jimmy, I really don't want you to die, please don't kill yourself!"
"What are you talking about? I wasn't going to…" He stopped short of himself and analyzed the situation, realizing how she came up with this solution from his statement that he was going to leave.
"You've got it wrong Cindy, I meant that I was going away, so you can stop worrying and leave now."
"Where are you going?"
"Why do you care?"
Cindy sighed; she really didn't feel like dealing with him today. "Fine I'll just leave then."
"Who's stopping you?" Jimmy turned back to the window.
On her way out she saw the computer screen
It was a search engine page, the search was 'Ivy League Colleges' and the first link listed below:
Harvard, Princeton, Dartmouth, Yale, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, or Penn StateCindy looked down on his desk. There was a packet of papers lying there. The papers were all applications for colleges…more specifically, those same 8 colleges. But as she looked at them closer she realized, they weren't applications…they were request forms, all the colleges wanted him.
"Cindy? What are you still doing here?" Jimmy asked not turning from the window.
"You're going to College Nerd-tron?" She said ignoring his question.
"Wha? How did you know…Hey, are you over there reading my stuff?"
"I…I'm sorry for going through your things. You'll do great in college, Jimmy…Good Luck." She turned away from him. Jimmy's eyes softened at the tone of her voice, he could hear the hint of sadness, her head was hung as she slowly shuffled from his room.
"Cindy I…"
"Save it Neutron, sorry I bothered you, I'm even sorry for what I said before…but I gotta go, I guess I'll see ya around…or maybe I won't, I guess it just doesn't matter really." She said and left his room shutting the door behind her. Tears slowly started forming in her eyes and quietly fell from them as she walked slowly down the stairs. She looked behind her before opening the door and leaving through it, shutting it behind her.
"Damn it everything was going fine, why did this have to happen?" Jimmy yelled after he heard the front door shut. "Why'd I even have to be called down to the office today?" He asked the walls thinking back to his meeting with the principal.
"Um…Hi, I'm James Neutron and uh, I was called to the…"
"Third office, on the right." A brunette woman said not looking up from her paper work while pointing down the hall.
"Uh, thanks…"Jimmy walked down the hallway to where the woman had said. The door was open. He knocked quietly, getting the signal from a man inside that it was alright to enter.
"Sit down, Timmy." The man said from behind a desk, his chair facing the other direction. As Jimmy sat down the man spun his chair around swiftly.
"It's uh, Jimmy."
"Well Anyway Johnny, You're a bright boy, actually the smartest young man this school has ever come across, so intelligent that you actually applied for classes we don't offer here." Mr. Parker (As it said on the gold plate on his desk) said now looking Jimmy in the eye.
"What's your point? And my name is Jimmy."
"Well Bobby, it's come to my attention that all 8 Ivy League schools, and many other very fine schools, want you to come to their school."
"And I don't mean after high school, they want you now, or as soon as they can have you."
"My name is Jimmy! Wait…what did you say?"
"I said, every college in the nation, wants you."
A/N Well hello all! I guess it's been a while since I've updated this, sorry bout that, well Please review!
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