Hi readers! Heres the third chapter. This one will mainly focus on Morty and get the story rolling.

Chapter 3: Who, me?

Morty

Morty kept himself up late thinking about ways he could talk to this girl. It was a battle inside his mind between wanting to talk to her and trying to convince himself it was nothing and he was just obsessive. He was excited to go to school the next day, even though the chances he would see her were small. Was she even in his grade? He barely knew anything about this girl. (Except that she was pretty)

Morty walked downstairs to the usual bickering of his family. Usually his mom and dad.
He was right. Jerry and Beth were bickering loudly, as if they didn't care they were disrupting breakfast. Morty slumped down in his usual spot next to Rick and quickly scarfed down his eggs and toast.
"Morty your going to choke and I'm not saving you." Said Summer, barely glancing up from her phone. Morty finished within 5 minutes. He made sure his clothes were clean and crisp, although he stuck to the usual yellow shirt and jeans. He did put quite a bit of effort into his hair though, even using a TINY bit of his sisters hairspray to hold down a cowlick that he usually didn't care about. He listened in for a second on what his parents were arguing about this time. "Seriously Jerry you need to let them be young teenagers! Morty can go off with Rick every once and a while-" His mom was intterupted. "Oh really Beth? I didnt realize you didn't care that Morty got an education. He NEEDS to learn SOMETIME!" Morty didn't care to listen to the rest even though it was about him. They'd hypnotized the principal anyways. He shot Rick a look and rolled his eyes and Rick returned with a swig of... whatever was in his flask. "Im going to school." He said bleakly. "What? Sweetie dont you want a ride?" Said his mother as she snapped out of the fight for a second. They didn't even wait for the answer before resuming the quarrel. He would just take the bus.

Morty hopped on the bus, he was just in time. His mood got bleaker and bleaker as he convinced himself he wasn't going to see the girl again, and he forgot all about Brads teasing. Until the bus made a final stop.
And guess who got on.
Morty snapped up from his daze and watched as she crossed to the back of the bus. How had he never seen her before? Sure he almost never took the bus, but he'd taken it at least once or twice before and hadn't seen her. She must be new this year at least. He watched and watched, and snapped his head away as he saw her sit with two other girls, presumably her friends. Shoot. He hoped neither she or her friends saw him staring. He was glad he combed his hair well today.

Rick

Rick kept himself up late thinking. He didn't want to admit but it was mostly about Morty. Although he'd only heard him mention the girl once, Morty was quite desperate to talk to her and Rick worried he might actually pursue her. He only worried because he didn't want him getting rejected, not anything to do with Morty himself. He noticed Morty had cleaned himself up well that morning, and rushed to get to school. He even smelled... Cologne? As he rushed past him. Rick was curious but denied to himself that he actually cared who Morty was talking to. He felt worse for the girl anyways. But just in case, he decided to find out who it was. For him it would be easy. After all he didn't want this bitch getting in the way of their adventures... No sir. He needed those brainwaves.

He also scarfed down his breakfast and left soon after Morty to do some much needed research. He headed into the garage and quickly pulled out a special computer in which he registered everyone in Morty's school. He did this by hacking into the schools computers with all the information. This meant he could also see who got into trouble, who was sick, but he didn't care about any of that at all. He went to the list of students at the school and went to the grade 9 section. Might as well start from the beginning seeing as she could be in any grade. No such luck. He moved on to grade 10. He then picked out the 21 girls who were in the gym class that day, but he was still stuck. Although one stood out to him. He couldn't help but notice it was the one Morty stared bug-eyed at before he pulled him out of the gym.
Her name was...

Morty

"Skylar."
Morty heard someone speaking to him. He whipped around, almost getting hit in the face with someones extended hand. "My names Skylar. People call me Sky, obviously." Morty fumbled and his head spun a bit. She was talking... to him? "Who, m-m-me?" Morty cursed himself mentally for stuttering so much. "No, the window." She said sarcastically. "You gonna shake my hand or am I invisible?" She smirked. "N-n-no uh I-I" Morty's voice cracked and he decided words were not on his side this moment. He grabbed her hand and enthusiastically shook it twice while laughing awkwardly. "M-Morty." He stated. "Nice to meet you Morty. We seem to run into each other a few times in the past few days so I thought I might as well introduce myself." Morty was shocked again by her confidence. She just... Talked to him? He heard the first bell ring. Crap! "Well gotta bounce I guess. Nice meeting you Jitters." Had she just given him... a nickname?
Then Morty noticed she was walking away. Wait no, no, no! Morty tried to get himself to mutter words but all that came out was a weird panicked noise. "aaAAH!" He froze and once again determined that he was not good at... anything social. Luckily Skylar- well Sky didn't hear that. And there was the tardy bell. He had been lost in thought longer than he suspected. Morty ran into the school and to his first period class.

The day went by, more embarrassing shout outs in math which he did not know the answer to. Lunch came and Morty went to his locker to grab his lunch. This time he kept his eyes up and quickly tried to get to the cafeteria as to not be teased by Brad again. Sadly, Brad met him halfway when Morty was oh so close to the cafeteria. (Well, a few turns down the hallway but he almost made it.) "Hey you little shit. I heard a rumor that you drugged the principal. We all know your too much'v a pussy to do that anyways." Brad shoved Morty back into the locker. "Come on Brad, stop I'm hungry." Said Jessica, clearly not actually caring about Morty. Another of Brads friends came along and began laughing beside Brad. "You go along baby ill catch up." Said Brad, and with a huff Jessica disappeared. Great. Any hope that she could've distracted him from Morty was gone. This was gonna be a bad one. Brad was about to grab Mortys backpack and empty its contents into the trash when out of the blue someone said "Hey do you assholes have anything stupider to do with your time? Stop bothering Jitters."
It was Skylar? Morty's mouth dropped. Did she not know who Brad was? Brad let go of Morty and scowled at the tiny girl. He laughed. "Who's this little shrimp? I didn't know Morty, or *snicker* Jitters somehow got a girlfriend. Pretty too." Brad and the other goonies who joined him made a half circle, pushing Skylar back beside Morty as well. "B-Brad don't involve h-her." Morty peeped, trying to stop what was about to happen. Brad continued, but she didn't look scared, not at all. "Not anyone's anything, idiot." Skylar spat. She was standing as tall as she could. "I want her to be mine!" Cried one of Brads goons. "You should smile, little bird." Teased another. Brad looked at her hungrily, the group inching closer to her by the minute. Skylar didn't move a muscle. Didn't flinch. "I think I'm above your level. Your brain's probably smaller than a walnut, and I'm sure your dick is smaller than your brain." Skylar dissed. She was good. Brad was definitely angry, and his face quickly turned annoyed. "You gonna wish you didn't say anything shrimp." He grabbed her arm and Skylar immediately did some twisty thing that Morty couldn't follow, and Brads arm was twisted around and he yelped in pain as he backed away. His friends looked alarmed, as Brad screamed "Little BITCH! I wont give you the chance next time!" They rushed away. Morty stood in awe.

Skylar fell against the lockers, letting out a huge breath. She was a little pale. Morty finally spoke "H-holy sh-shit! They left! A-are you ok?" Morty's heart was racing as he turned to her to make sure she wasn't mentally scarred. "Brad's a-a piece of shit, f-first lesson here." She stood up and took a deep breath. "Well that's over with. I can't believe they looked at me like that... By the way I'm not new. Been here since grade 9." She said. Her voice was shaky, different from the past two times Morty spoke to her. She was obviously shaken up, but she somehow still made them go away. Morty then took in what she said. "W-wait your not new?" How had he not noticed her before? "I take academic, must be why we haven't met. At least I think your in the applied classes, with Jessica, Brad and such?" She said. That's why Morty hadn't seen her. She was clearly smart. Morty was not. "W-well thanks for helping me, but I think I would have been f-fine." Morty lied. She ignored him and started walking back towards the cafeteria. Morty was disappointed but she didn't owe him anything anyways, he would just eat alone as usual. "What're you waiting for Jitters? Hurry up!" She said, smirking. She continued walking.
Morty was surprised, but right behind her.