Prologue
One would hesitate to call Billy an idiot because it would have been an insult to idiots everywhere. When it came to intelligence he probably couldn't even have put in enough synaptic links to get a combined score in the double digits. If he had been told he had gotten a nine on an IQ test he would have thought he was a genius. Billy still truly believed even in high school that his special education teacher was there to keep the other kids from being jealous of his extreme knowledge. But mother nature wasn't all mean, for all that he lacked in mental capacity, he made up for in looks. He'd gone through a huge growth spurt and time spent mostly as the ball had guaranteed him a place on the football team (his only direction was to knock over as many of the other colored Jerseys as he could though he tended to get confused still and bowl over his own teammates as well.) and that had helped him to bulk out as well as his voracious eating habits which had not changed a bit since his younger days. His nose had not changed a bit but his face had filled out around it and his shocking red hair now hung shaggy under his turned back hat. He was to most girls in the school, their dream come true, their knight in tarnished, food covered armor.
There was one girl who did not see him that way. His closest and strangely most dependable friend was still with him. Mandy had changed little from her early days. She had gone from a dark sinisterly intelligent child to darkly intelligent and sinister teen. She could not have been called pretty. Though her blowing defeat of Mindy in the beauty competition had shown another side to her (and Mindy who, after they made it back from the alternate universe was found to have completely collapsed in on herself; her reason for living having been destroyed when any hope of beating Mandy had ceased. She had gone on that way for quite some time before quietly moving to Canada. It was said that she had found herself there and become a Nun.) But she never showed that side again after it's earlier devastating effects. The best she could have hoped for was to be called striking. After all she did warrant a second look for here was a girl with pretty blond hair and bright sunny pink dress with the darkest scowl one could have never have imagined looking you down with the fires of Hades in here eyes. She had grown. That could be admitted. She was tall now, not too tall mind you, but tall enough to be intimidating if you got on her bad side which many of them did. That is not to say that she was evil but merely that she was a big fish in the tiny pond that was Endsville and they just kept running into her somehow.
Oh she had had her share of boyfriends to be sure. She had dated Irwin for a time if only to have a willing slave but found that it was not the same as bossing around Billy who was too stupid to get that she was being mean or Grim who hated it and voiced this hatred loudly. Later she had even tried her hand with Spurge and had easily talked him into sharing seventy percent of his bullying profits with his beloved girlfriend after she threatened to go public with the fuzzy bunny undies she had found in his drawer. In time their own time she had kicked each and every one of those so called love sick swine to the curb though some she had kept in their blackmailing bonds in case she ever had need of them again.