Jimmy lies on his bed thinking about what happened at the dance and also about the fact that Nick is at Silver Lake.

The next morning at breakfast Jimmy eats his food when a shadow looms over him.

He turns around to see, in his leather jacket, white undershirt, and jeans, Nick Dean.

" Uh…hi Nick." Jimmy says.

" Why Neutron, what a surprise, oh and look it's Kelly." Nick says.

" Shut the hell up." Kelly says.

" Aw what's the matter Kelly, no guy has given you a second glance since the summer?" Nick says a sinister look in his eye.

Kelly remains silent, she then gets up and punches Nick right in the stomach.

" Why you dirty little bitch!" Nick says preparing to punch Kelly but one ofthe staff members runs up.

" All three of you, to the Dean's office now!" He says leading them out, everyone's eyes following their progress.

In the Dean's office Jimmy, Nick, and Kelly sit in three chairs, the Dean sitting in his chair, his arms folded across his chest.

" Well, well, well what do we have here? Jimmy, Kelly, and Nick. You three are lucky I don't send you to Juvenile Hall for that affair at breakfast." He says.

" But sir we have an explanation," Jimmy begins but the Dean cuts him off.

" I don't care Mr. Neutron." He says.

" But sir, Jimmy and I didn't do anything!" Kelly says.

" Oh yes Miss Lincoln, punching Mr. Dean here isn't anything."

" But Jimmy didn't do anything." She says quickly.

" Yes but Mr. Neutron has some previous offenses." The Dean says. " Now if you are done screaming you should be glad to know I'm not sending you to Juvenile hall, for now. But I'm assigning you each a weeks worth of night detentions starting tonight."

The three walk out into the halls.

" You two got lucky, I'll get you for this." Nick says slinking off.

" Gosh we got off lucky." Kelly says.

" I guess we did." Jimmy says. " But last time I got a detention I had to scrub the floors."

The two return to the hall and sit back down next to Nigel.

" So what happened?" Nigel asks.

" We got a week of detentions because of Nick." Jimmy says angrily.

" Oh well it could have been worse." Nigel says.

" How so?" Jimmy asks.

" I was still kinda working on that part." Nigel says.

" Oh you're a great help. Real confidence booster." He says.

After breakfast is over Jimmy goes to his first blab session with Kelly and Nigel.

In the room are Jamie, Sora, Anna, and Nick.

Nick gives Jimmy a cold stare whenever the two's eyes meet.

When it's Jimmy's turn he actually talks about his problem making the entire circle gasp that Jimmy isn't a mute.

After that it's lunchtime already.

At the lunch table Jimmy sits down with Kelly and Nigel and eats in silence.

The day passes quickly until that night when he, Kelly, and Nick are sent to the Dean's office.

" Ah nice to see you three." The Dean begins. " Follow me."

He gets up and walks out of the office, the three following.

He leads them to a room full of potatoes.

" Now peel all of these potatoes before morning or else I'll give you each another week of detentions." He says smiling evilly.

He walks out closing the door and locking it.

Each of the three picks up a potato peeler and begins on the gigantic stack of potatoes.

Jimmy stares down at the potato imagining Nick's face on each of them and peeling it off.

" I can't believe I ever thought he was my friend." Jimmy thinks.

Flashback to three years ago.

Jimmy was sitting in the classroom when Nick walked in.

Nick started walking towards Jimmy.

" Hey Neutron, meet me in the bathroom after class." He'd said.

Jimmy could hardly believe his ears, Nick, the most popular kid in school was actually talking to him.

After class he sped towards the bathroom.

Inside the bathroom Jimmy saw Nick standing against a wall.

" Hey there Neutron." He said.

" Hey Nick." Jimmy said.

" So I'm glad to see you showed up."

" Yeah."

" So Neutron…"

Suddenly a voice brought Jimmy back to reality.

" Jimmy, get back to work." Kelly says.

Jimmy looks down at the half peeled potato in his hands.

He starts peeling it again.

He looks at his watch; it's almost midnight.

He then looks up at the pile of potatoes; it's still really high.

Jimmy starts trying to peel even faster; he doesn't want to be doing this for another three weeks.

Jimmy starts going back into a flashback.

" So Neutron, wanna smoke?" Nick asked holding up a carton.

" Um…no thanks Nick, I don't smoke." He said.

" Come on, have you ever tried it?" Nick asked brandishing the cigarettes.

" Um….um…no thanks Nick."

He started heading for the door but Nick blocked the door.

" No way, no one turns Nick Dean down."

" I think I'll be the first."

He tried to slip past Nick but he continued to block the door.

" Come on, you know you want to." Nick said holding up a cigarette.

" I don't want it!" Jimmy said slapping the cigarette away.

" Why don't you?" Nick asked still trying to sway Jimmy.

" My cousin got lung cancer from smoking. You know what he said? He said one cigarette wasn't bad, then he couldn't stop smoking, he died a little while afterwards."

" Aw come on, do you know how unlikely that is?" Nick asked.

" No Nick."

Once again something jerks Jimmy back to reality, this time Nick's fist.

" Listen Neutron, I don't like this anymore then you but you can't randomly stop working." Nick says.

Jimmy put his hand against his face. His face wasn't bleeding just red and sore so he held back the urge to tackle Nick.

Jimmy started peeling the potatoes again.

At one in the morning the pile is almost gone and each of the three is keeping to themselves.

At three in the morning the pile is down to a few potatoes when the Dean walks in.

" Hmmmmm… okay job, I guess." He begins looking at a potato. " You may leave."

Jimmy gets up and starts walking towards his room, he can barely walk he's so tired.

Once he gets back to his room he walks in and hears the door click even though there wasn't a nurse following him.

He collapses onto his bed; he can't take a week of this.

Jimmy reaches under his bed a pulls out his cell phone he'd gotten for Christmas. He dials Cindy's number.

In Retroville Cindy's phone rings.

" What?" Cindy says sleepily.

She picks up the phone.

" Hello?" She asks sleepily.

" Cindy it's me." Jimmy says.

" Jimmy!" Cindy asks in amazement.

" You gotta help me!" Jimmy practically yells.

" Quiet down." Cindy says.

" Cindy please, listen to me! The Dean is a mad man I swear…" His voice is cut off.

Jimmy hears the door click and the knob turns.

Jimmy quickly closes the phone and puts it back under his bed.

On the other end the line goes dead.

" Jimmy! Jimmy!" Cindy asks but nothing on the other end.

Back at Silver Lake Jimmy scrambles under the covers as the door opens.

The door opens and the Dean walks in.

" Hello Mr. Neutron, were you having a nice conversation?" He asks.

" Conversation…um what conversation?" Jimmy asks.

" I heard you, you were talking to someone, I heard you through the door." He says.

" I wasn't talking to myself." Jimmy says.

" Oh, were you talking in your sleep?"

" I wasn't asleep, I was about to when you barged in on me." He says.

" Oh yeah, then you wouldn't mind me doing a search."

" You can't do that. It's against the law."

" The law? The law? I am the law!"

He gets down and sticks his arm under the bed, he pulls out the phone.

" Oh, what do we have here?"

He opens the phone and hits redial.

Cindy answers the phone.

" Hello Jimmy," She begins. " Are you okay? What happened before?"

" Oh hello." The Dean begins. " I'm afraid Jimmy can't talk right now, or ever again."

" What? Where's Jimmy? Who's this?'" Cindy asks.

Jimmy springs up and before the Dean can react Jimmy delivers a swift punch to his face.

The phone falls and slides across the phone.

Jimmy runs to it and picks it up.

" Cindy it's me Jimmy, I knocked the Dean out cold but I'm not sure when he'll wake up. He's insane, you've got to get help and get me out of here before this guy kills me." Jimmy says.

" Jimmy calm down. I'll get help, I promise." Cindy says.

From behind Jimmy feels a hand on his shoulder.

Jimmy turns around to see the Dean standing over him, a look a cold fury fixed on his face, blood running down his face.

" Oh hi Mr. Dean, nice rest?" Jimmy asks trying to fake a laugh.

" Come with me." The Dean says in a cold monotone voice grabbing Jimmy's arm.

He pulls Jimmy out of his room and down a hall Jimmy pulling back but to no avail.

He continues pulling Jimmy until they reach a door at the end of the hall, the Dean opens it and throws Jimmy in.

" You'll be staying here now." The Dean says savagely.

He closes the door and locks it.

Jimmy looks around, a bed, a bathroom and nothing else, no windows, none of his stuff, nothing, back to square one.

Jimmy lies down on the bed, it has sheets on it already.

" This is so unfair." Jimmy thinks.

He takes out a paper clip from his pocket. He unbends it and starts fiddling it around in the lock and after a few minutes he here's it click.

Jimmy slowly opens the door. He walks out, closing and relocking the door.

He slowly creeps across the hall, hiding in shadows whenever he hears footsteps.

Kelly had told him her room number and he needs to talk to her.

Jimmy finally gets to room 40 he taps on the door softly.

" Kelly." He whispers.

He hears a rustling inside the room and Kelly walks up to the door.

" Jimmy!" She asks amazed.

He inserts the paper clip into the lock and undoes it.

He opens the door and tip toes in.

" Jimmy, what are you doing here?" She asks.

" I had to talk to you." Jimmy says.

" Why?" She asks.

" Because the Dean is crazy."

" Didn't we already know that?" She asks.

" I tried to get help and the Dean went crazy and threw me into another room without anything."

" What!"

" We have to do something before it's too late."

" What are we supposed to do?"

" We need to call the police or anyone who can."

"Okay."

" Come with me." He says.

He unlocks her door and the two creep out.

" Where are we going?" Kelly asks.

" We're going to my old room, I have a cell phone and a whole bunch of other stuff we may need." Jimmy says.

After much hiding and restarting the two reach Jimmy's old room.

Jimmy opens the door, as the Dean never locked it.

Inside the room Jimmy starts collecting his stuff. Once he picks up his phone he dials Cindy's number.

" Jimmy, are you okay!" Cindy practically yells over the phone.

" I'm fine Cindy. Where are you?"

" I've gathered up everyone and we're on our way to Silver Lake. We'll be there soon, I promise. Bye"

She hangs up.

" Let's go." He says.

He and Kelly sneak out and go to Jimmy's new room.

Inside his room Jimmy locks the door.

" Now what do we do?" Kelly asks.

" We stay here and wait." Jimmy says.

" That's a stupid idea." Kelly says.

" Got any better ones?" He asks.

" No." Kelly says defeated.

" Then we go with my plan." Jimmy says.

Meanwhile Cindy and the others are in two cars, going as fast as they can.

" What did Jimmy say?" Samantha asks.

" He said that the Dean was crazy and that we had to help him." Cindy says for what feels like the hundredth time.

" How close are we?" Sheen asks.

" We're about four hours away." Mrs. Neutron says.

" Four hours, but at that rate we won't get there till eight a.m." Cindy says.

" Cindy's right. Put the pedal to the medal Mr. Neutron!" Samantha says.

" I'm on it!" Mr. Neutron says accelerating.

Back at Silver Lake, Jimmy and Kelly sit on Jimmy's bed.

Suddenly a knock is heard.

" It must be the Dean hide!" Jimmy whispers.

He and Kelly quickly hide. Another knock is heard.

" Jimmy it's me, open up." Nigel voice wheezes.

" Nigel!" Jimmy exclaims.

He runs to the door and opens it, Nigel stands there, his face is bleeding badly, and his clothes are torn.

" Nigel, what did they do to you!" Jimmy asks amazed.

" It…it…was the D…d…dean." He says weakly.

" Why did he do it to you!" Jimmy asks.

" He knew that I'd know what you'd do and he beat me until I told."

" Did you tell?" Kelly asks.

" Y…yes." Nigel starts. " He's probably on his way right now."

" We have to get out of here." Jimmy says calmly.

" But where will we go?" Kelly asks.

" Somewhere…anywhere, we just have to get out of here." Jimmy says.

Suddenly the door knob starts turning and Jimmy notices they forgot to lock the doors.

" Hide!" He says.

Kelly darts into the bathroom, he darts under the bed and Nigel follows Jimmy.

The door opens and the Dean walks in.

" Hello Children, come out and play." The Dean says

The Dean begins to bend down to look under the bed when Jimmy springs out and tries to punch him.

The Dean grabs his fist and pushes it backwards.

Jimmy howls it pain.

" Now tell me," The Dean begins pushing his hand further and further back. " Where are the others."

" I'll never tell you." Jimmy says through gritted teeth.

" Fine then Mr. Neutron.," The Dean begins. " You've forced me to use more creative measures. Don't say I didn't warn you."

He puts his hand over Jimmy's mouth and walks out.

The other two spring out.

" We have to help him!" Kelly exclaims.

" How?" Nigel asks.

" I don't know. But we will, no matter what it takes." She says, a determined look on her face.

To be continued…

Oh a cliffhanger. Next chapter will be up when Jupiter a lines with Uranus.