CHAPTER 9

TWISTED PLOTS

The next day at school, Tempest was at his locker gathering his books for his first period class until Spike walked over to him.

"Good morning, Tempest", he said in a low voice.

He faced him with sadness, "At least you're talking to me. I called Lynn over five times last night to apologize but she never answered nor returned my calls."

The way she felt yesterday made him hate Tempest but he just couldn't tell him how wrong he was to do that to her. It would've made him feel even more bad than ever. "She saw a lot yesterday. It'll take some time." Especially him. It sent a shiver down his spine just thinking about that disgusting display. He was then startled when Tempest slammed his locker shut with his anger and hate.

He looked down on the floor with both of his fists clenched, "Today, it ends. I had enough from Veronica. I'll fucking kill her."

Spike gulped hoping that he wasn't talking about shooting her. It scared him once he thought about the gun he had. He might have the gun with him right now. He began ask Tempest about the gun again until Lynn walked up to them with her books in her arms.

She never looked at Tempest only at Spike, "Spike", she called in a low voice.

The hedgehog and bird turned to her in surprise. After what she saw yesterday, they thought she wouldn't walk an inch near Tempest.

Tempest hesitated to talk to her. He just had to know if she had hated him or if they were truly through. "Lynn", he spoke.

Her eyes flashed over towards him with a cold look letting him know that she was still angry with him, "I was talking to Spike."

He heaved a sigh and picked his backpack off the floor knowing that there was no point talking to her at the moment. "Forget it", he muttered. He threw his backpack over his shoulders and walked away without saying anything else.

Afterwards Spike had his attention on Lynn. At last they were alone and together but she wasn't happy which made Spike unhappy as well. "What's on your mind, Lynn?"

"I came to tell you some things about Tempest."

"Wha-what things?" He asked while sweating a bit. He hoped she didn't find out about the weed and to make it worse he was hooked on the stuff too.

She sighed then quickly continued, "...Tempest is a druggy, Spike."

He raised an eyebrow, 'And you just figured that out?' He thought it was obvious.

"Well, it seems obvious but when he starts hanging around people, he encourages them to mimic what he's doing. Spike, he's a terrible influence on you believe me. Do you even know why he has a gun with him all the time?"

He shook his head slowly.

"Because he's been making deals with drug smugglers and believe me they're terrible people. They will kill people if they have to and Tempest got scared because of that."

Spike's eyes widened with disbelief, "Wha? How did you know about the weed under his mattress?"

She made a slight smile, "I know his room from the back of my hand. He thought he could hide that shit from me. What a liar. Wait a minute how did you know about the marijuana he had?"

A sweat drop appeared on the back of his head trying to make up an excuse for the real reason, unfortunately he couldn't think of one so he had no choice. "He showed me then I did it with him."

Lynn started laughing a bit.

Spike couldn't figure out what was so funny, "What did I say?"

"What you said sounded so...perverted."

He rose an eyebrow still confused.

She laughed once more, "You did it with him."

He blushed with embarrassment, "No, I didn't mean it like that! I meant-"

She placed her hand on his shoulder, "Yeah, I know what you meant. Sorry, I pointed it out like that."

He smiled a bit, not because of the humor but because she was happy for once.

She stopped laughing and brought herself back on the subject, "Anyway that doesn't matter. Spike, I'm telling you this for your own good stay away from him. You will get hurt one way or another and I don't want that to happen to you because I..."

He blinked as he anxiously waited for her next words.

She blushed and quickly got off the subject while she skipped what she was about to say, "Anyway that's all I wanted to say."

The hedgehog's ears flopped down in sadness. He knew what she was about to say but he just wanted to hear her say her feelings for him right then and there. Then his ears perked up hearing Leon and Veronica's laughing approaching them. "Christ, not them again", he muttered.

As Leon approached her, Lynn didn't hesitate to tell him what happened between Tempest and Veronica. "Leon, I have something to tell you."

The lion smirked and already knew what she was about to say, "This wouldn't be about Veronica and Tempest would it?"

She couldn't believe it. How could he know about it and not be angry with Veronica? It didn't make sense. "She told you?"

He nodded, "Of course she told me. We planned it."

"What are you talking about, Leon?" Spike asked.

"It means this was our little plan to get back at you punks. Yeah I know Veronica is a whore but she's my whore and I don't mind sharing her with others. Unlike Tempest, he hated sharing his property so he dumped her for being such a slut."

The pink cat glared at Veronica then back at Leon, "That's absurd. Tempest would never treat women like things."

"Heh, you'd be surprised. That's why I made Veronica play with Tempest. He can't resist a good time."

Lynn looked down to the floor in sadness.

"That's right, cat girl. If Tempest had never shot me then you wouldn't be heartbroken, but of course my plan isn't completely done yet. You'll carry out the rest without even knowing it. You see this is what happens when stupid punks like you start to ruin my life. You hate me don't you?"

She clenched her fists tightly, "Yes, but..." she said in a deep voice. So deep he could barely hear her. "The person I hate the most right now is that fucking slut!" She looked over to Veronica in anger as she dropped all of her books on the floor and ran up to her pushing her onto the floor.

Veronica looked over to her in rage while she was still on the floor, "Bitch!"

Spike and Leon quickly backed away from the two girls knowing a fight was about to be taken place.

The rest of the students started to gather around making inappropriate comments.

"Slap that bitch senseless!" One shouted.

"Rip her shirt off!" Another yelled.

Veronica got off the floor walked up to her, "So, you wanna play like that huh?" She raised her hand in the air and slapped her hard in the face.

Her face had turned red from the hit and it badly stung her. She held her fist tightly and punched her in the face making her bleed from her mouth.

Veronica got knocked back a bit and had almost fell back on the floor. She spat out some of her blood on the floor while she stood apart from Lynn. Afterwards she ran up to her and tackled her on the floor with her hands wrapped around her neck trying to strangle her.

Lynn was laying on the floor suffering until she spotted her Math text book laying beside her. She quickly grabbed it and flung it into Veronica's head knocking her off her body. She then got on top of her and started to punch her in her face yelling, "BITCH! BITCH! BITCH! YOU FUCKING BITCH!"

"That's enough!" A loud female voice shouted making Lynn and Veronica stop hitting each other and the other students look over to her.

Spike then saw an adult red fox woman wearing a red dress approaching the two girls, "It's Principal Fears."

Leon gave him a grimaced look, "No shit dumbass."

Spike ignored his comment and watched Principal Fears yell at Lynn and Veronica.

"What do you two think you're doing fighting like that? In my office right now! Both of you!" Her voice was loud and startling to the other students and made them fear her even more.

Before Lynn and Veronica got off the floor, they both sent each other threatening looks.