Chapter 2
"No way!" they shouted in unison. Jimmy stared at Cindy, and vice versa.
"Why are you here?" asked Jimmy accusingly. "I thought- Oh wait..."
Cindy sighed and bared her teeth, sitting down on a log suspiciously quickly. I can't even have a stupid week off without him to come ruin it! Although I didn't really agree to this trip in the first place, thought Cindy, her emerald green eyes fixed on Jimmy.
"Took you long enough, genius boy."
Jimmy glared at her, anger boiling over his usually calm personality. (Pssh, as if!)
"I thought you were going to a different camping ground, that's all!"
Cindy rolled her eyes, unable to believe such cynical lies. "Neutron, get over yourself. All humans make mistakes, you know.. Oh wait, you don't think you're human, do you?"
"Shut up! Gosh, Vortex, you think you're so great, you with your conceitedness!"
Cindy rolled her eyes again, this time more agitated. "Why are you talking about yourself?"
"Godammit, why do you have to make bad situations even worse?"
Judy looked up from the tent she was attempting to pitch. "Watch you language, James!"
"Alright, Mom!" he shouted back, again turning to Cindy. "Seriously, can't you leave me alone for once in your friggin' life?"
Cindy looked up from her fingernails, of which she had been examining during Jimmy's little speech, and sighed exasperatedly. "Do you think I planned this? I cannot believe you. You and your bigheadedness... I mean, if your head was any more filled with hot air, you would blow up! Get over yourself, and here's some advice. Get a life." And with that, she strolled over to the tent she had only just vacated.
Jimmy scowled once again, noting nothing other than hate in his mind, but in his heart flickered something entirely different...
"Time to go to your own tent, Nerdtron."
Jimmy could see her smirking up at him from the flap in her tent, and he found good reason to continue scowling.
"As if I wanted to stay anywhere near you!"
And as he left, a melancholy feeling was left in the air, as if he had just ruined any chances of anything with Cindy. But fate was not giving up so easy.
The next morning was bleak, fog rolling about, dew covering everything, including the tent, through which the dew had soaked through the forlorn night.
And let's guess what the parents, Cindy's mom included, had in mind.
Canoeing.
"No! Mom, it's too cold, it's too dark, Mooooooooommm!" came the cry of Jimmy as his mother attempted to drag him out by the ear.
Something similar was happening over in the Vortex tent.
"Mom, what? No way. NO! NO MOM, IT'S TOO COLD OUT, IT'S NOT EVEN 6 O'CLOCK!" was Cindy's excuse.
But they were both dragged out, and as soon as the moms reached the large fire pit that sat between the two campsites, they were practically thrown down onto logs.
With wide eyes, Cindy attempted to cover herself up, seeing as she was only wearing a pink tank top and pink flannel pajama bottoms.
"Neutron, stop gawking at me and close your eyes!"
But Jimmy could not oblige; his eyes were glued open with shock. Except that Cindy started laughing so hard, she fell off the log.
"I-Is that" Cindy could not say any more that moment because of laughter overcoming her. "Are t-those pajamas with-with" More laughter. "With FEET ATTACHED?"
Cindy could say no more, and she rolled all over the wet forest floor. And who wouldn't after seeing Jimmy in such a time of... Embarrassment?
He was wearing, indeed as Cindy said, pajamas with feet attached. They were red flannel, and it had a yellow atom sign on the left breat pocket, his trademark.
Jimmy could do nothing but blush, trying desperately to free himself of his mother's death grip.
"Let-Let go!" He jerked free, wincing at the pain his mother had inflicted on his earlobe. He turned around abruptly to face Cindy.
"We'll see who has the last laugh, Vortex! I'll see you in a canoe in half an hour!"
Cindy looked up from where she was rolling around, leaves stuck to her.. Umm.. 'Behind'.
"Is that-" A pause. "Is that a challenge, Mr. Feety-Pajamas?"
Glaring, Jimmy pointed at her, and hissed, "Is there anything else that would happen between us?"
And that's how we go the Amazing Canoe War.
A/N: Can someone please tell me if that was funny? Because I was too distracting laughing at Jimmy to notice.
Anyway, Ooh, a cliffhanger! Muwahaha, I feel so evil.