"Shouldn't Gary have come back like a few moments after he left?" Pete asked.
I shrugged, and ate my cupcake. Once I finished gobbling it down, I stood up, flattening my skirt. I looked over to Pete, who was licking the icing off his fingers. I smiled at the cute picture of him, and luckily he was too busy enjoying the taste to notice me staring. I wondered what Gary was up to, so I slightly opened the door, and peered into the hallway.
There was music notably playing from the first floor, and found Gary talking to the kid I saw earlier.
"You should change into your uniform, if you don't want to get in trouble." Gary stood next to the first door on the left side of the dorm. Petey soon joined me, and walked over to Gary to see what's up. The door slammed shut, making Pete and me jump.
"So uh, who's the new kid?" Pete asked shakily.
"His name's Jimmy, and he thinks he so tough." Gary huffed. I snickered, causing Gary to look over to me with an angry look. I jogged down the hall, stopping right in front of him.
"What impression does he give to make you think that?" I raised my brow at him.
"Everything. The way he carries himself, the way he walks, his facial expression, voice, language, his clothes, everything." He glared.
I pursed my lips, and put my hands on my hips.
"Well. maybe he doesn't mean to. Maybe he just has a 'resting bitch face'? Besides, you shouldn't judge a book by it's cover; he could surprise you." All of a sudden, I heard Pete's voice, but he was no longer in my field of vision. I searched behind me, and found nada. Returning to my conversation, Gary was suddenly gone too.
"Guys?"
"Yeah, I've been expelled from anywhere halfway decent, 'cause I'm bad!" I heard Gary's voice mock. I directed my gaze into Jimmy's room, realizing everyone was in there.
"Give up the tough guy act, pal."
"Hey man, what's your problem?" Jimmy asked defensively.
"Well, AD.D. primarily. But also life, my parents, this school, western civilization... but really, honestly, enough about me. Oh, I see you've met the dorm's mascot. Ladies and gentleman I give you.. 'Femme Boy'! The girliest, boy in school. Petey, haven't you got some imaginary friends to go annoy?"
"Why don't you just leave me alone, Gary?" Pete responded.
"Yeah Gary!" I retorted. Everyone looked back at me, and I noticed Jimmy seemed a bit surprised.
"Is mama bear gonna come out now?" He taunted.
"You wanna fuckin' go?" I threatend, having enough of Gary's antics.
"Oooh, are you gonna get all feisty now?" Gary was clearly nothing else than amused, making me even angrier.
I snarled, and lunged at him. He moved out of the way just in time, and ran out the room. Before I did anything else, I thought I should introduce myself before beginning my trek of beating up Gary every time he insulted Pete. I removed any random strands of hair that were in my face, and grinned at Jimmy, who was perplexed by my actions.
"Hi! I'm Katherine, but just call me Kat! And you don't have to share your room with anyone, so you're pretty lucky."
"Um, yeah. Look, I have to unpack right now, so could you and Pete see me later or something?" Jimmy requested.
"Yeah, sure! We'll go ahead and get out of your hair!" I began to walk out with Pete ahead of me, but I knew that I didn't know anything of Jimmy, and I was deadly curious of him. I stopped, and gathered some courage to ask him a question.
"Hey, do you need help unpacking?" I wondered, and really hoped to bond a little with him.
"I guess I might need some help. You can go ahead unpack that bag over there." He pointed to a bag near his wardrobe. I crouched down, and began folding clothes, then placing them to my side.
After I finished, I look around to see Jimmy placing a journal and a comic book on his desk.
"The only thing you brought besides clothes was a journal and a comic?" I questioned him, raising an eyebrow.
"After moving around a lot, you kinda learn to pack light." I nodded.
"Anyways, since I just got here, would you mind showing me around?"
"Not at all. Follow me." I exited Jimmy's room, and soon the boys' dorm. I jogged down the stairs, and began making my way to the main building. As I walked with Jimmy slightly behind me, I heard his voice interrupt me overthinking about the way I walked.
"How did you not get in trouble being in the boys' dorm for so long?"
"I'm very sneaky... Not really though, the boys just usually aren't very observant of their surroundings, and I think they couldn't care less about seeing a girl in their dorm. No one snitches, besides the little kids. And I don't think any of the younger boys live in the dorm. So I tend to get away with it." We were now inside, surrounded by pristine light yellow walls that hadn't yet been covered in tags made by delinquents, or any rotten eggs splattered anywhere. Not yet.
"This, is your school." I presented the school in an obnoxious way, and received a repressed laugh from doing this.
"Oh no, not this again!" I heard Algie cry out from behind. I looked behind me, and of course, Gary was there, bullying him, and stealing his book just to throw it back at him. I rolled my eyes.
"Hey Jimmy, let me show you around!" Gary said gleefuly, running off to my right. Jimmy and I followed him. He stopped in the middle of the hallway, not too far from Russell, who seemed to be guarding his locker.
"That's Russell's locker. You know, the big ape who amost put you in the hospital." Russel then jogged over to us, which scared the crap out of me. He towered over Jimmy.
"You like to eat fist?!" Russell threatend. Jimmy apologized.
"What'd I do? I'm sorry."
Give me cash. Now!" He demanded. Jimmy handed him a dollar, saying that they don't have to fight.
"Scuz face!" Whatever that meant. He pulled Jimmy into a headlock, then gave him a noogie.
"Next time you give more, doofus!" With that, Russell finally left us alone.
"Come on! Let's break into it and steal something. That'll teach him." Gary said.
"Um, if we steal something, that'll teach us, Gary. "
"Kat, Russell's so stupid he won't even notice anything is missing. "
"Fine. But if he comes after us, I'm blaming it on you." I warned. Meanwhile, Jimmy finally managed to open the locker, but a prefect that happened to be near by sensed our distress.
"You do know you're not supposed to be doing that!" He yelled. Gary immediately ran away to distract him. I looked to Jimmy, and he shrugged. We both ran the opposite way together, going right. I hid in a locker while Jimmy went elsewhere. Once all of the commotion had died down, I met up with the boys in our previous location.
"Okay, now what?" I watched Gary check his watch.
"Follow me guys."
Gary began to run again, and this time we ran into a crying Eunice, exiting the girls' bathroom.
"Hey! It's that weird chick, Eunice. Let's have some fun with her." At this point, I was worried about what Gary had in store.
"Talk to her! See what she wants." I cringed at Eunice's crying, hoping to get this over with.
"What's going on?" Eunice left out one last sniffle before repying.
"He took my chocolates! Please get them back!" I resisted rolling my eyes at the reason for her sobbing.
"You should get them back for her. Kat, stay here. Jimmy and I'll go get her chocolates." And before I could even complain, they ran out of my sight. I sighed, turning back to Eunice who had significantly calmed down. I've never really spoken to Eunice before, and I didn't want to be mean to her either.
"Who took your chocolates, Eunice?" I asked, crossing my arms.
"I think it was that kid with the really weird name. Constatine?" She narrowed her eyes in thought.
"Constantinos, you mean?"
"Yeah! That guy!" Just as she said that, they boys came back, Jimmy holding a pink heart-shaped box. He walked up to her, handing her the box.
"Thanks! Um, wanna make out?" I was surprised Eunice asked such a thing, and even more so when Jimmy began "kissing" her. It was so gross seeing them, I had to look away. The sloshing noises made by them didn't make it any better.
"You actually kissed her." Gary stated in disbelief. I made a retching sound, losing any sense of appetite I might've had.
"Jimmy, that's disgusting." I buried my face into my hands, feeling second-hand embarrassment. I peeked through my fingers to ask Gary what else he wanted to show Jimmy.
"Let's go to the cafe'. I'll show you who's who." Gary, once again, lead the way.
"Show him who's who? You never bothered to show Petey and me the cliques." I grumbled.
"You eventually saw them all anyway." Gary shook his head. We stopped in front of the enterance of the cafeteria.
"Yeah, when we went into their territories, and were chased out by them." We walked down the steps, and for once, all the cliques were there, hanging out in small groups.
"Feeding time at the zoo. Okay, here's the deal. Over there we got the nerds." Gary directed his gaze over to Earnest, Algie, and Cornelius, who were playing a game of Grottos and Gremlins.
"Of course, they're complete social outcasts."
"They look pretty harmless." Jimmy commented.
"They're actually sneaky bastards. Their turf, is the library." Next to them, were the preps. Darby had his arm around Pinky, and I found it so disturbing that they date their cousins. But that was just one thing, out of a list of many, things I didn't like about the preps.
"And those are the preps. They're all money, and condescending attitude." The way Gary moved his head, along with the face he made, made me giggle.
"Yeah, massively inbred, and completely brainless."
"Very observant, Jimmy boy." Gary complemented.
"Now over there are the greasers. They think they're tough." I noticed Johnny was leaning against the sneeze gaurd, making me wonder how gross his jacket must once he gets off of it.
"Or at least try to look tough." Jimmy intervined.
"Wouldn't advise messing with them. At least not yet. They hang by the auto shop. And last, but not least, the jocks. These guys rule the school. Definitely avoid them." Gary emphasized.
"Whatever, I'm not afraid of some dumb 'roid monkeys." I wondered how Jimmy would fare if he had to fight against someone tough like the jocks.
"You'll learn." After Gary said that, the bell rang.
"Come on, let's go." Before we could even walk up the steps, everyone crowded the entrance, pushing all of us back. I was pushed so hard, I fell on my butt.
"Ow!" I frowned, and unfortunately, Jimmy saw me fall. Great, hasn't even been a week and I've already managed to embarrass myself in front of the new kid. But instead of laughing, or teasing me, Jimmy held out a hand. I took it, and grunted as I got up. I felt something flutter in my chest.
"Thanks." I muttered, glancing at him.
"No problem." He grinned. Another flutter in my chest. I wondered why Gary hadn't said anything, but realized he was angrily staring after the crowd that had pushed us behind. We finally made it out of the cafeteria, but only to be chastised by a prefect.
"You're here to learn. Not to goof off. Get to class!" Gary immediately left us, going to Math since it was Monday.
"Wow, I can totally count on you to be loyal." I said to myself sarcastically. Jimmy pulled out his schedule, looking at it. The prefect soon left, and I noticed how bare the school was of students.
"Do you know where Chemistry is?" Jimmy looked up to me.
"Yeah, it's gonna be that door near the vending machine."
"Cool. What abou-"
"Just meet us up in the cafeteria during lunch time, which will be like 11:30ish. I can actually show you around, unlike Gary, who only made you open Russell's locker, make out with Eunice, which was really disturbing to watch by the way, and where the cafeteria was."
"All right, I'll just meet up with you guys then. See ya." Jimmy finally went off to class. I sighed, wondering if these small feelings will bloom into something more. Obviously Jimmy wasn't the prettiest boy, but he's surprisingly nice to girls. And Gary... Gary was-
"Hey! You! Are you skipping class!?" I heard a prefect say from behind me. My eyes widened, and I cursed under my breathe as I sprinted off to class.
Author's Note:
Hey! Sorry for not updating in literally forever! I apologize. School began, and next thing I know, I'm bombarded by the work of junior year. Plus, my phone decides to crash when I exit out of applications too quickly, and the power button doesn't work so I've been unable to use it. The ever so intelligent me saved my drafts on my phone, and I was sort of hoping I'd be able to retrieve them, but no such luck. So I started over from scratch, and here's the new chapter. No school Friday, so hopefully I'll be able to update again soon. Sorry for not updating, I know I've been lame.