Cindy

Jimmy pissed me off so bad this morning! I don't even know why, I mean all he did was say something about my dad and it really wasn't even that big a deal but for some reason it majorly pissed me off. I don't like it when anyone mentions my dad no matter what they're talking about. I told you I hate him, I wish he were dead. I can't even hear the word dad without getting pissed off, that's how much I hate him!

I met up with Libby on the bus who was listening to her CD player. She had just gotten the new Chris Brown CD so it was no surprise that her headphones would be glued to her head the entire day. I sat down next to her and she smiled.

"Hey girl," She said in her sugary sweet perky voice. It irritated me so bad. How can she be so awake and perky in the morning while I'm trying my hardest just to stay half awake?

"Hey," I replied in a dull tone. She just laughed as I started to nod off.

"Wake up!" She giggled while pushing my shoulder.

"I am awake," she stared at me unconvinced, "I'm just resting my eyes." And I laid my head on the seat and dozed off while she continued to listen to her music and stare out the window. By the time I woke up we were already at school. As weird as it sounds, I love school. It's the only place where I don't have to worry about "him" being there and I can just hang out with my friends.

Me, Libby, Sheen, Carl and Jimmy all hung out by the steps before the bell rang. Libby and Sheen were all over each other and it was a little disturbing, and Carl was sitting on the ground finishing up his homework so the only person I had left to talk to was Neutron. I stared at him and he smiled weakly. I guess he thought I was still pissed off at him which I was a little but not really. Me and Jimmy have gotten along a lot better since 5th grade. We still didn't see eye to eye on everything but we were a lot better than we used to be. I couldn't help but stare at his amazingly sexy body. He had grown a lot in the past 7 years. He used to be the shortest kid in class and now he's almost a foot taller than me. And his hair was beautiful, I just wanted to run my hands through it. He had been working out a lot for the past few years and has a rock hard body and a lot of muscle which is so sexy. And his face was beautiful, he had the deepest blue eyes I'd ever seen and his cheeks and jaw were chiseled. Plus he had a lot better fashion sense. He wore a white beater that showed off his 6 pack and he wore a black button up shirt, opened, over it. Then he wore his black trip jeans with the chains on it and his black Chucks. Everyone thought he was Emo but they didn't know him like I did. Besides I thought his look was extremely hot. Oh and did I mention his cologne? I swear he must have invented that just to attract girls because it is the best scent in the world and it always makes me want to be close to him.

"Having fun?" Jimmy asked. He noticed me staring at him, great. That's just what I need, him thinking I like him.

"Sorry I just kind of gazed off," I replied making it seem like I wasn't staring at him.

"Hey are you alright?" He asked moving a little closer to me.

"Yeah," I lied, "Why?"

"You just seem like something's wrong." Of course something's wrong, something's always wrong! I thought.

"No nothing's wrong, I'm just tired is all." He stared at me in disbelief. Jimmy always knew when I was lying, I could just tell. Usually he would say something but this is just one of those times where he knows that it's none of his business. We just stared into each other's eyes and he smiled. I wanted to tell him so bad, I really did but I couldn't. I knew I couldn't so I just had to keep it to myself. Libby doesn't even know about it so why would I tell Jimmy something that I can't tell her? Then Jimmy finally broke the silence.

"Hey um… I was thinking," He was silent for a second, "Would you wanna-" The bell rang and cut him off and everyone started rushing into the school. "Nevermind," He started to walk into the school but I grabbed his shirt and pulled him back.

"No, what were you gonna say?" I asked eagerly. It wasn't often me and Jimmy actually had time to talk to each other so I really wanted to know what he was gonna ask. He waited until almost everyone had gone into the school before he answered me. I guess he didn't want to have to raise his voice over the screaming teenagers.

"Would you wanna maybe, I don't know, go to the Candy Bar after school?" He asked nervously. I was a little surprised, we haven't gone anywhere together in so long. I was about to say yes but then I rethought about it. What if this is a trick? He never asks you to go anywhere. I couldn't help but be skeptical.

"What would be the occasion?" I asked curiously. He just laughed.

"What I can't ask a friend to hang out with me?"

"Jimmy when's the last time you ever asked me to go anywhere with you?" I questioned. He looked kind of guilty by what I said. I think I made him feel bad. Awww, it was so cute but so depressing at the same time. What the hell I guess I'll go, I mean Jimmy's not an immature little punk-ass brat anymore so I don't think he would be trying to trick me.

"Well if you don't want to go you don't-"

"I'd love to go," I cut him off. He smiled happily at my answer.

"Really?" He asked as if he thought I was lying.

"Yeah, we haven't done anything together in a while so what the hell," I gave him a kiss on the cheek which believe me took all my strength to reach up that high, and I started walking to class. "See you later Jimmy." I waved goodbye and continued walking but before I made it to class I turned around only to see Jimmy jump and scream "YES" as loud as he could. "You coming to class?" I asked giggling. He jumped in shock and turned around. His face was pink in embarrassment.

"Yeah I'm coming," His voice cracked, and I waited for him to catch up to me. He put his arm around my waist and I put mine around his.

"You're such a weirdo," I giggled.

"Yes but I'm a sexy weirdo," He joked and ran his fingers through his perfect hair. I just laughed and took my hand and shook his hair around messing it up. "Hey!" He said cautiously as he smoothed his hair back down. "Don't touch the hair."

"Yeah you're so sexy now," I laughed and he stuck his tongue out at me as I did the same back to him. Then we just laughed and he kissed me on the forehead as we walked to class arm in arm.

Jimmy

Today was a long day. We had 4 tests, which weren't really that hard, then once we got to geography it was torcher. Our teacher Ms. Freeman forced us to watch a video on the wonders of landscapes. To any other kid it might be slightly interesting but to someone who's traveled around the world and into the universe and under the ocean and just about everywhere else you can imagine the last thing that would interest me is the wonders of landscapes. But at least I got an extra hour of sleep in that class and I was looking forward to going to the Candy bar after school. I had to ask Cindy something really important and I hope she says yes.

2:30pm at the Candy Bar

Cindy and I walked to the Candy Bar together and she told me about her day and I told her about mine and then we got into an argument about who's day was better because Cindy has to have everything better than mine. We may not be enemies anymore but our constant competitions will never die. By the time we had gotten to the Candy Bar our fight was over and we sat down in a booth near the jukebox, which was playing "Dance, Dance."

"I love this song," Cindy said happily as she sang along to it. She wasn't embarrassed by anything even the fact that she had a terrible singing voice. Ok it wasn't terrible but she definitely was no Christina Aguilera or anything.

"Yeah this song's pretty cool," I agreed. I just stared at her for a minute. She was so beautiful I couldn't help but get hypnotized by her looks. I guess I stared at her too long cause she gave me this really weird look like I was freaking her out.

"Uh, you ok Neutron?" She asked shyfully. Oh shit! I thought and I shook my head knocking myself out of her trance.

"Sorry, I just uh… You want a drink?" I tried changing the subject. She just laughed and smiled.

"No thanks I'm fine," She replied. I was thirsty though so I ordered a Dr. Pepper. As I waited for my drink I tried to ask her what I wanted to ask her but the words wouldn't come out. I don't know why I was so nervous, I just was. She looked at me, studying my face. I think she knew I had asked her for a reason, I'm really not the kind of person to ask someone to go somewhere just to hang out unless it's like Carl or Sheen.

"Jimmy," She looked down at the table, "What's the real reason you wanted me to come here?" She looked back up at me with a hurt expression on her face. I guess she knew. I felt bad though, I mean it's not that I didn't want to hang out with her it's just that I really needed her help and… Never again in my life will you ever hear me say that. I took a deep breath and I looked straight into her limpid green eyes. They were beautiful just like every other part of her body.

"Well… I guess you know I didn't just ask you hear to hang out." I gulped loudly hoping she wouldn't take that the wrong way because usually anything I say, she takes the wrong way. Surprisingly she didn't this time.

"Yeah well it wasn't that hard to figure that out," She replied viciously, "You never ask me to hang out with you, EVER, so why would today be any different?" That one hurt, she really did want to hang out with me. I'm such an idiot, I felt so bad. "I'm not stupid Jimmy." She finished.

"Cindy it's not that I don't want to hang out with you…" She looked at me unconvinced, "It's just that I have something really important to ask you."

She looked kind of shocked by what I said.

"Really? Like what?" She asked as though I was about to give her secret codes to break into a bank account. God did I really ignore her that much? I thought I paid at least enough attention to her so that we weren't total strangers but apparently to her I hardly gave her any attention at all. I guess I need to pay more attention to her… Nah, she'll be fine.

"Well…Ok, last week I had gotten a message in my email from…" I didn't want to say the name because I knew she would be afraid if I did.

"From who?" She asked eagerly.

"…The Yolkians." Cindy's face went from interested to frightened in a matter of seconds. Her skin turned pale and her eyes were extremely wide.

"Th-th-the Yolkians?" She choked as she tried to hide the fear in her voice. Ever since that day when we were 13 everyone has been scared to death of the Yolkians. Even I'm a little afraid of them but I can't be too scared. I'm this world's only hope to destroy them. I continued with my request.

"Look I know that after what happened you probably want nothing to do with the Yolkians-"

"Damn right I don't!" She cut me off, "Those fuckers almost killed everyone on the planet!" She shrieked. She was shaking and fidgeting like she had just swallowed an entire bottle of caffeine pills.

"Calm down Cindy," I tried to lower her stress level considering she has extremely high blood pressure. "It's ok just listen to me." She put her hand on her forehead and took a deep breath with her eyes shut, trying to calm herself down.

"Well I know that whatever you're about to say isn't gonna be good so I'm just gonna leave now." She got up and started walking as fast as she could towards the door, which made me angry. I got up and grabbed her by her shoulder and spun her around, then I grabbed both her arms so she couldn't move. "Let me go Neutron!" She growled like a mad dog. Cindy looked like she was about to chop my head off but I didn't care. I just stared at her with two of the angriest eyes I could form and I saw her expression suddenly go from insanely mad to extremely afraid. I had learned how to control Cindy with a simple look. For some reason if anyone gave her an angry look she became afraid like they were gonna hit her or something. I don't know what it is that does it but it works so I use it even if I'm not really angry.

"Look Cindy I need your help and you're not going anywhere until you at least hear me out!" I said slightly shaking her. I could hear the fear in her voice.

"Ok," She replied softly. I felt kind of bad for freaking her out but I wasn't gonna just let her walk out like that.

"Hey I'm sorry I didn't mean to get mad I just…" I gave her a kiss on the forehead and held her tight, rubbing her back. It took her a minute but she slowly put her arms around me too and held onto me. She was so warm and she smelled great. I didn't want to let go of her no matter what. And her hair was so soft as I ran my fingers through it. I gave her another kiss on the top of her head and we sat back down in the booth. It was so weird. We could act like we were about ready to kill each other one minute and then be like best friends the next. Our relationship was very strange.

"Ok so what do you need my…" Cindy stopped like she had suddenly realized something, "Did you say you needed my help?" She asked pointing a finger to herself.

"Yeah I know big shock whatever," I said trying to get back on topic. She just laughed. "Look, the Yolkians are planning on attacking the Earth again." Her look went from devilish to fearful. "I don't know when and I don't know how. That's why I need your help." Everytime I said that she would start smiling. God it's like if try to be nice to her at all it's like the apocalypse or something.

"Why do you need my help? What about Sheen and Carl can't they help you?" She suggested.

"I can't ask them because they're…well they're…total and complete idiots." Cindy just laughed as I rolled my eyes. "Look you're the only person I know who has the intelligence to take on an alien race with me."

"Jimmy, we're only two people. We can't take on an entire-"

"Yes we can," I interrupted, "But we're gonna have to work together." She thought about it for a minute before she spoke back and I don't blame her. This was gonna be very scary, for the both of us.