HEY GUYS! Yeah, there's not much to say, since this is the first chapter and all, but yeah, anyways, this is my first fanfic, so please be nice, and sorry in advance if there is any spelling errors.
Chapter 1
Secrets and painful nights.
Jimmy ran into the school building out of breath, and almost out of time. He lifted his watch as he made a sharp turn around a corner. "7:56, MAN! I gotta learn to get to bed on time!" Jimmy said to himself, stopping at his locker and hurriedly turned the lock. Once his locker was open, he shoved his backpack in and grabbed his math book. He slammed his locker door closed and ran to his class room. "7:58, damn it!" Jimmy said angrily. He didn't want his perfect on time attendance to suddenly vanish with only three weeks of school left!
Jimmy burst into the class room. He looked around. Everyone was in their seats except Sheen. Sheen was sick with the flue. He looked at Carl. (A/N: does Carl spell his name with an E on the end? Someone tell me, please!) He was writing something on a piece of paper. "Ahem." Jimmy looked up. "Jimmy, would you please take your SEAT!" Miss. Fowl squawked. Jimmy's cheeks turned red as he nodded his head. 'Well, at least I wasn't late.' Jimmy thought to himself, as he slid into his seat.
"Psst." Jimmy, turned to his right. "Pass this to Cindy." Carl whispered. Jimmy looked at Cindy, she was talking to Libby. 'Wow.' Jimmy thought to himself. 'Cindy looks, nice.' Jimmy's eyes widened at his own thoughts. 'Dude, that's CINDY! Don't think that!' Jimmy took the folded piece of paper and placed it on her desk. She glanced at him, and then took the paper and read it. She quickly grabbed her pencil and jotted something down and handed it back to Jimmy. He knew what to do, he quickly passed it to Carl.
Jimmy basically went the whole lesson passing notes back and forward from Carl to Cindy, from Cindy to Carl. 'What the hell could they be talking about?' Jimmy thought, while passing a note to Carl from Cindy. When the bell finally rang, Jimmy stopped Carl in the hall. "Carl, what were you and Cindy talking about?" Carl's eye twitched. "Um….llamas!" Carl said, walking a little faster. "Carl, tell the truth!" Jimmy said, putting his hand on Carl's shoulder, trying to slow him down.
Carl turned his chubby body towards Jimmy's small, slim one. "Jimmy, I can't! I promised Cindy I wouldn't tell you! And I won't! I know you guys are friends now and all, but I can't! She said you'd over react! And I think you will too!" Carl shouted, throwing his books on the ground. Jimmy was shocked at Carl's sudden outburst. He had never seen his best friend act this way before. Carl looked down. "And I'm sorry I talked to you that way." And with that, Carl ran down the hall to the cafeteria.
Jimmy spent the rest of the day wondering what could have been going on between Carl and Cindy. 'Why would she tell Carl something and not me?" Jimmy thought to himself. "I mean, she MUST trust me more then him." Jimmy said to himself, walking home. He didn't feel like riding the bus. Besides, walking meant he could talk to himself. "What does Carl have that I don't?" He said, stopping to tie his shoe. "She can trust me!" Jimmy stood up and continued walking.
"And its not like he's better looking then me!" Jimmy stopped in his tracks. "Wait, am I…jealous?" "Jealous of what?" Jimmy jumped and spun around. It was Cindy. He could feel his face turning red. "Um, nothing. I was just thinking out loud." "Ah huh." Cindy said, walking next to him. "Why are you walking home?" She asked, putting her hands on her backpack straps. "I, uh, missed the bus." Jimmy lied. Cindy lifted an eyebrow. 'He's a pretty bad liar, but its kinda cute how he tries. Wait, did I just call Neutron cute? Ugh, snap out of it Vortex.'
"Why are, you walking home?" Jimmy asked. Cindy shrugged. "My dad told me to." "Oh. But why?" He asked, being noisy. Cindy looked at her feet. "He thinks I need to lose weight, so every day I have to walk-" "Wait, wait, he said you had to lose weight?" Jimmy asked, cutting her off. She nodded. "Why! Your body's perfect! Your as skinny as me!" Cindy looked at him. "Did you just compliment me?" Jimmy could feel his face turn red again. "Uh, well, uh….yeah." Jimmy said in a low voice. Cindy turned a little red too. "Oh, thanks." 'He thinks I'm skinny!' Cindy thought. 'Who am I kidding, I like Neutron.' 'She said thank you!' Jimmy thought. 'Oh, who am I playing, its so obvious I like her!'
When they reached their street, Jimmy turned to Cindy. "Hey, I kinda left my pen at school. Can I use one of yours for homework tonight?" Jimmy asked. "Don't you have one in your lab or something?" Cindy asked. "Yeah, about that," Jimmy said, scratching the back of his neck. "I sorta spilled melting fluid all over my pen can…with the pens in it." He gave her a goofy smile. She smirked and reached her hand into her backpack. "Thanks Cindy, if its not past 10pm when I finish, I'll bring it over to your house." "Mmmhmm. Ok." She said, fishing out a pen and handing it to him. Jimmy smiled and looked down at her hand that held the pen. He frowned. There was a bruise the size of his fist on her wrist. (A/N: hey, that rhymed! lol)
"Well, are you gonna take it?" Cindy said. Jimmy shook his head and came back to reality. He took the pen and thanked her. "Hey, Cindy, what's with the bruise?" Cindy looked down at her arm, and covered it with her other hand. "Oh, its nothing. I have to get home. But when you bring the pen back, fly up to my window with your jetpack, my parents won't want to see you at the front door." And with that, Cindy ran home. Jimmy watched her run. He was concerned. He turned and walked to his house, which was across the street from hers. "I hope she's ok." Was all he could say before opening his door and walking up to his room
Later that night…..
Jimmy put down Cindy's pen and looked over his homework. "Perfect, as always." He sat back in his chair and thought back to earlier today. "I wonder where Cindy got that bruise from." Jimmy said to himself. He looked at his watch. "9:45, I better take this pen back to Cindy. I wanna talk to her about her wrist." Jimmy said, getting up and walking over to the wall. He had fixed his cloaking device on his room. He set it to Jimmy asleep. So now anybody who walked by, they would see a holograph of Jimmy sleeping peacefully in his bed. Jimmy grabbed his jetpack and flew out his bedroom window, and across the street to Cindy house.
He flew up to Cindy's bedroom window. She was calmly reading on her bed. He was about to knock on the window, but he saw Cindy's father enter her bedroom. Jimmy flew a bit backwards into the shadows of the trees. So nobody could see him, but he could still look through the window. He saw he fathers mouth move, but he couldn't tell what he was saying. Jimmy pulled out some headphones out of the pack of his jet pack and a satellite. Now he could hear what they we're saying.
"Did you clean your room?" Cindy's dad said. "Yes." Cindy said, putting down her book. "Come here." Her dad said. She quietly got up and walked over. "You say you cleaned your room, but what's that?" He said, pointing over to the desk. There were papers scattered all over it. "Sorry, I forgot to put my homework away." Cindy said, looking down. "Sorry?" He said, Cindy nodded. "SORRY?" He yelled so loud, Jimmy had to turn the volume down on his headphones. He grabbed Cindy's hair and pulled her closer. "When you say sorry to me, you LOOK at me! Got it?" He shouted in her ear. Cindy nodded, her eyes squeezed shut. "I SAID 'GOT IT'?" He screamed. "Yes, YES! I'm sorry!" Cindy yelled, eyes still shut tight.
Her dad let go of her hair, and Cindy fell to the ground. He kicked her. "Your USELESS!" Cindy's father shouted, grabbing her arm with the bruise on it and pulled her to her feet. He examined the bruise. "Oh, did daddy hurt your arm last week?" He asked in a sweet voice. Cindy said nothing. Her father slapped the bruise and Cindy squeaked in pain. She grabbed her arm as tears fell down her face. "What's this, crying?" He slapped her across the face. "STOP IT!" She screamed.
Jimmy watched in horror as Cindy's father approached her. "What did you say?" He punched Cindy in the stomach. When she leaned over, grabbing her stomach, he pushed her to the ground and kicked her onto her front. He stepped on her spin. "NOT A WORD OR I'LL CRUSH YOUR SPIN!" Jimmy wanted to do something, but he couldn't. "Now, what do you call me?" Her dad said. She didn't answer. "You lazy cow! What do you call me!" Still, Cindy remained silent. "Come on, Cindy." Jimmy whispered to himself. "Mr. Vortex." Cindy said, strongly. Mr. Vortex took his foot off Cindy. He walked to the door. "When you get up, lock your door." And with that, Cindy's father left the room.
Jimmy quickly took off his headphones and put them and the satellite into his pack and flew to her window. Cindy was curled on the floor, crying. Jimmy knocked on the window lightly. Cindy looked up and more tears fell down her face. She got up slowly, wincing, and limped to the window. She opened it, and Jimmy flew in. He landed and threw his jetpack on the bed. He ran to Cindy and hugged her gently. Cindy couldn't stand. And they both fell to the floor in an embrace. Cindy cried on Jimmy's shoulder for what seemed an hour, but was only 20 minutes.
Jimmy let go of Cindy and walked to her door. He locked it. He then pressed a button on his watched and a blue ray went over the door. "What are you doing?" Cindy asked, her voice shaky. "Sound proofing your room." He said. After about a minute, he walked back over to Cindy and picked her up, bridal style. He placed her on the bed, and he climbed on the bed beside her. "Cindy, how long has he been doing this to you?" Cindy was quiet a minute. "Since my mom left him to go to Delaware." "And how long ago was that?" Jimmy asked gently. "A month ago." Cindy said, hugging her legs together and looking away. She had stopped crying, she was just really hurt. "Good thing its Friday, or else you wouldn't be able to go to school tomorrow." Jimmy said, looking at her arms and legs, they were really beaten up. No blood though. "He always does it on Fridays. So I won't go to school looking hurt." Cindy said, looking Jimmy in the face. "Why did you come here anyway?" Jimmy reached into his pocket and pulled out her pen. "To give this back to you."
Cindy looked at the pen and took it. "Thank you." She said. "Not for bringing back the pen, but being here after I was beat." She gave him a big bear hug. Jimmy was surprised at first, but hugged her back. "Your welcome." He whispered, closing his eyes. When they let go, Jimmy looked Cindy in the eye. "This is what you were telling Carl about, wasn't it?" Cindy nodded. "And something else." She thought she said to herself, but Jimmy heard it. "I thought you would over react if he told you, so that's why I told him not to tell you." Cindy said. Jimmy nodded. "I probably would." Jimmy said, laughing a little. "And, what was the other thing you told him? Since I already know about this." Jimmy asked slyly. Cindy rolled her eyes. "Was it how hot you think I am?" Jimmy said, sarcasm in his voice. "Yeah right." Cindy said, even though she thought he was attractive. "Come on, tell me." Jimmy said. "No!" Cindy said, holding out her hand. "You wouldn't care! Sides." Cindy sighed. "You'd laugh at me." "No I wouldn't." Jimmy said, putting his hand on her shoulder. "Yes you would." Cindy whispered.
"No, I wouldn't." Jimmy said. "I would never laugh at you Cindy, well, yeah, at some things to cover something up. But in this situation, no I wouldn't." Cindy looked at him. "Well, what are you covering up?" She asked, scooting a little towards him. Jimmy looked away a minute. "Well. To cover up, some feelings." He said, scooting closer to her as well. "If I may ask, what kind of feelings?" She asked. Jimmy looked down. 'Minas well tell her, what do you got to lose?' Jimmy thought to himself. He looked up. He look her hands and looked into her eyes. "Feelings like, feelings of like. Cindy, I really like you, I mean, REALLY like you, and seeing this happen to you, it just kills me inside. And all I can hope right now, is that you like me back, because even if you don't like me back, I want to help you through this. I do. I really do."
Cindy was shocked, but was so happy at the same time. She leaned on Jimmy's chest, which kinda surprised him, but he liked it after the first second. "Oh, Jimmy, I feel the same way, as in, really liking you, and I'm so happy you wanna help me. And I would love you to help get me through this. Jimmy hugged her and closed his eyes. He let her sit up so he could look her in the eyes. 'Her eyes are beautiful. Just like the rest of her.' Jimmy thought. He mouthed something, but Cindy could read lips. He mouthed the words "kiss me".
Cindy smiled and leaned in. Jimmy knew what was happening and leaned in as well. They closed their eyes until their lips lightly touched. Jimmy slid his hands around her waist and Cindy moved her hands up around his neck. Jimmy pressed his lips a little harder on hers, and so did Cindy. Their kiss wasn't so passionate, but it was nice enough for them. When they finally parted, they hugged one more time. "Wow." Jimmy said. "You don't know how long I've wanted that." Cindy giggled. "Well, doesn't look like I'm going anywhere for a while." Jimmy said, touching Cindy's hand. "What do you mean?" Cindy asked. "I'm not letting you stay here alone with that creep." Jimmy said. "I have my cloaking device on at home, my parents think I'm home asleep. I'm not going anywhere."
"Jimmy, you don't have to do this." Cindy said, concerned. "I know, but after that kiss, I might never leave." Cindy laughed. "Good thing the doors locked and the rooms sound proof." She said, smiling slyly. "As much as I want to Cindy, I have to protect you." Jimmy said, caressing her cheek. She smiled and yawned. "Tired?" Jimmy asked. She nodded. Jimmy pulled down the covers and got under, so did Cindy. He pulled her onto his lap, and pulled the covers over them. "Goodnight." He said softly. "Night." She said. She kissed him lightly on the lips and laid her head on his chest. "Damn I wanna make out but you know, that will have to wait till we get to my place." Jimmy said. Cindy laughed, her eyes still closed. "Hey, you got the first kiss on your bed, I should have the first make out on my bed." Jimmy protested. "Goodnight Jimmy." Cindy said, still giggling. Jimmy smiled slightly. "Goodnight princess." He whispered, and closed his own eyes to go to sleep.
WHOA! Long 1st chapter! I couldn't stop writing! Lol. Well, its like, 1:30am, so yeah, im gonna go to bed! R&R please!
