"Have you noticed something wrong with Jimmy?" Libby said as she ate lunch with Cindy.
Cindy looked over at Jimmy as he listened to Carl tell him something, most likely a story. Although there was a plate in front of him, Jimmy hadn't touched the food on it. This was the second week that it had been like that. She also noticed he was a little pale as well from where she was sitting.
"As far as we know, he's probably done something stupid in that dumb lab of his."
"Have you seen his new lab?"
"Me? Pssht, no… Why would I want to see him dumb ole lab?"
"I dunno. It used to be your thing… thought maybe you might know what's going on…"
"No, I haven't seen it…" Cindy said, looking off in the distance.
TWO WEEKS AGO
"Jimmy? Jimmy, there's someone here to see you?" Judy said into the intercom.
Jimmy frowned, pressing the button on his desk.
"Can you take a message, Mom? I'm working on something pretty important."
"Even if it's one of your friends?"
He thought for a second. "Is it a girl or a boy?"
"It's Cindy."
"No thanks. I'm very busy!"
He sighed and went back to what he was doing. That was all he needed, was for Cindy to come through and ruin his concentration with those legs of hers. He shook his head, getting their first encounter since he got back out of his mind. He had more important things to do… like make sure this worked. He looked back through the microscope and leveled the dropper he had above it.
"Let's see… how did he do it? It was something like 'I wish my seed would sprout immediately'?" he said as he dropped one drop of shimmering liquid onto the seed.
Immediately, the seed sprouted, a little green stem coming up. Jimmy grinned.
"Awesome…"
He reached into his drawer and pulled out a small recorder, leaning back in his computer chair and adjusting his glasses. He got them because he would work late into the night when he lived in High Tech City and all the squinting from school and in his personal life for the microscope made his eyes go a little bad. He wore contacts when he went to school because he didn't want to have to explain himself anymore than he had to but he preferred the glasses because there wasn't a possibility of falling asleep with them in his eyes.
Running his fingers through his hair and turned the tape recorder on.
"Formula I20-8 was a success in the same reproduction that the holograms of a certain Timothy Turner from Dimsdale were able to do. This is the twenty-third test and it was, as all the others were, a success. I believe that now I have enough evidence and successes to try it out on a human subject. I, of course, will be the test subject so as to not cause any harm to anyone else… I am going to modify the formula so that any old 'I wish' trigger won't cause anything odd to happen to me. I believe that saying, 'I wish nothing would happen unless I, myself, says it will happen' or something along the same lines will do as I inject the serum into my body should do the trick. I am only uncertain about two things: how long will an injection last for the triggering words? How many times can I use them before they will not work? One can assume that 1cc of the serum can count for one ability to use the 'I wish' trigger but I cannot be sure of that… The answer will have to be found out during the human testing…"
He stopped recording and sighed, putting the recorder back in the drawer. He turned around to get up and gasped at the person standing in the middle of his lab.
"Cindy."
"Wow… your new lab is awesome." she said, walking in slowly, holding her purse in front of her legs.
"What the hell? I thought I told my mom not to let anyone come down?"
"She did. I snuck in on my own…" she said, throwing him a daring smile.
Jimmy wanted to be mad but her smile made him blush and her outfit didn't help that much either.
Bark, bark!
Cindy turned as Goddard ran out and she smiled big, kneeling down in her high heels expertly.
"Goddard! I haven't seen you in such a long time!" Goddard whimpered a little and licked her cheek with his metal tongue. "Aw, I miss having a dog…"
"What happened to Humphrey?" Jimmy asked, walking up with his hands in his pockets.
"He got out and was hit by a car. I thought about getting another one but it's still a little fresh…" She smiled at Goddard and then looked up and over. "Oh wow! You still have some of your old inventions after all…"
Cindy stood up, straightening her dress, and walked over to a display case that was on the far wall. It held some and parts of some of Jimmy's old inventions.
"Let's see… book gum, those stupid running shoes, the zombie all-in-one candy… Remember that? You had to actually shock us to get us to stop?" she said with a laugh. Jimmy nodded but only gave a little smile. Cindy looked back. "What's this wheel for?"
"It's Brobot's."
"Ugh, you mean that creepy little brother you tried to make?"
"I'm no Geppetto." He said with a shrug.
"That's for sure… why do you have it? Did something happen?"
"I got a distress signal from him one day and went to check it out. It looked like a meteor shower may have happened but all I found was that. I really don't know if it was Brobot or his family's but I just came to the conclusion that it was his."
"I'm sorry you lost him."
"Eh, it was coming. I wasn't really that heartbroken over it."
Cindy nodded. "Oh, hey, a piece of taffy and a Fish Snack'um from that time we went in the submarine to find the 'treasure'."
Jimmy nodded even though Cindy couldn't see and she smiled, remembering all the adventures they used to have as children; no reservations and no cautions, just adventures they're parents said were dreams.
"Did you need something, Cindy?" Jimmy asked.
"Well… I was wondering what your new lab looked like since you could show everyone else but me." She said, turning around and putting her hand on her hip.
Jimmy smiled awkwardly, rubbing the back of his neck.
"I… figured you wouldn't care about it anymore. You're a cheerleader and star of the track team so I figured you had enough stuff on your plate to care about a lab."
Cindy frowned deeply. "You've ruled me out!"
"Excuse me?"
"You've given up on me."
"I… don't follow…"
"All you can see are those things now, you don't appreciate my intellect anymore. Actually… I think you think that I don't even have brains anymore, don't you?"
"How can I say that when you get straight A's?"
"Yeah, A's, not AA++'s, right?"
"I never said that."
"You didn't have to!"
Jimmy sighed and took off his glasses to rub his eyes and then stuck them back on.
"Cindy, I have always valued your intelligence. I've always valued your ability to have good common sense along with that intellect that I sometimes don't seem to have. I have gradually learned it from having to deal with smart people like me in High Tech City but I still don't have enough of it to be modest. Cindy, we left on some pretty bad terms and I came back unexpectedly. I have enough gathered common sense to know that things will not be the same as it was; you moved on and so I feel that I should do the same."
Cindy rolled her green eyes at him.
"Neutron, you weren't just my boyfriend back then, you were my friend first. Even when we started dating, you were still as much of a friend as you were a boyfriend. You haven't gained enough common sense to realize that even though things aren't the same now, we can still be friends and it not be weird…"
"I see… I apologize then, if I hurt your feelings. I assumed for you."
"And you know what assuming does…"
"No…"
"It makes an ass out of you and me… You've never heard that expression?"
"You know puns aren't my thing."
Cindy laughed. "So… what are you working on?"
"A formula that I developed using particles that I got from Timmy Turner's holograms." He said as they walked back over to the table.
They got to the table and Jimmy held up a beaker full of clear liquid until it moved and it would be glittery.
"Cool, what are you going to do with it?"
"I'm about to test it."
"On… yourself?"
"I was about to…"
They stared at each other for a moment and then Cindy cleared her throat.
"Uh… I… Do you mind an audience? Or do you need help?"
"Um… no, I'd prefer you weren't here… I don't want anything to happen to you but I was kind of hoping to do this one alone…"
"I see… so I guess I'll go then. I just wanted to come see the lab." She began to walk off as Jimmy watched her. She stopped at the door. "Oh, Neutron?"
"Yeah?'
"You should wear your glasses more often; they suit your big head."
For the first time since had gotten back, Jimmy gave her one of the few genuine smiles he gave nowadays to her and all she wanted to do was melt.
"I'll keep that in mind."
PRESENT
"Hello, Earth to Cynthia." Libby said, moving her hand in front of Cindy's face.
"Huh?"
"Girl, who are you fantasizing about?"
"N-no one… Jeez, Libby."
They were about to get into it when Jimmy suddenly got up, holding his mouth, and ran toward the school. The two looked over at Carl after they were done and he looked at them, getting up and walked over to them.
"What happened?" Libby asked.
"I'm not sure. He suddenly got really pale and slapped his hand over his mouth, running off."
Cindy looked at the door in worry. She wondered if she should have stayed with Jimmy despite his protests or if she should tell them about the formula he was working on.
Jimmy washed his mouth out in the bathroom and then gave a burp for good measure. He then washed his face off to get some life back into his cheeks and wiped his face off, putting his hands on either side of the sink.
"I wonder if this was such a good idea to do this without someone there to know what to expect. I could never tell my parents because they would make me stop experimenting altogether but… maybe I should have let Cindy watch…"
"Watch what, Nerdtron?"
Jimmy looked up as Nick came out of one of the stalls.
"I just did an experiment and I should have had an assistant watch me or something. Nothing weird."
"What gave you the right to take Cindy to your lab?"
"I didn't take her, she went there herself."
"Look, just because you're smart and shit doesn't mean that you can try to take her away from me. I know she's a little smarter than I am and I don't get what she's saying a lot but she's my genius. You had your chance and you blew it."
"I know."
"Good, I'm glad we're at an understanding." Nick whacked Jimmy hard in the shoulder. "Just remember, Nerdtron, I'm not afraid to kick your ass and if I find out that there's more to just 'assistance' with Cindy, I will personally shove my foot down your throat. See if science has a way of curing that."
He left the bathroom and Jimmy sighed, rubbing the pain from his shoulder.
"Wow, he's an even bigger douche than I remember him being." Someone said.
"You can say that again." Jimmy said as he looked into the mirror.
He gasped, turning around to look at the person who spoke to him. The kid smiled a little.
"It's been a while, huh?"
"Sheen…"
it looks like sheen's on the scene. is he okay with jimmy? and is jimmy okay? nick is a little possessive huh? we also have a verbal cameo of timmy turner from the jimmy/timmy power hour!