Might as well get out another chapter with the spare time I have. I don't exactly know how many chapters this story is going to have, but regardless, enjoy.

THURSDAY, 1 WEEK AND 1 DAY UNTIL THE PRE-SPRING BREAK DANCE

After the...well, blushing incident...from yesterday, Todd was doing his best to try to forget about everything that happened, but he couldn't, because about a hundred things were running through his mind. What was Jenny's reaction to the situation? Was she creeped out, flattered, disgusted, confused? Did she...like him back?

Todd shook his head at that thought. I mean, what girl would like him back? He didn't think any other girl besides Maurecia would "like" like him, especially if they knew his...hobby that he's been active in for the past year, of whom no one knows about, not even Maurecia.

Todd's regular classes went by pretty quickly. Fortunately, he was able to focus on the work assigned to him instead of constantly on Jenny. When lunch came, to keep his thoughts in check, he brought out his Nintendo Switch and began playing Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. He had been playing for about 10 minutes when:

"Hey, Brother T, mind if I sit here?"

Todd recognized that voice, and he definitely recognized who calls her friends slangs like that.

He looked up from his Switch and saw Jenny standing by the empty chair next to him, and blushed, thought thankfully it wasn't as noticeable as yesterday's...incident. "Uh, yeah, sure, go right ahead." he said.

Jenny sat herself down in the empty seat. Todd took one good look at her and tried his hardest not to blush, but nonetheless a red tint of blush managed to leak into both of his cheeks. He was trying his hardest to deny he was developing a crush but at this point it was no use. If he told anyone he wasn't developing feelings for Jenny, they wouldn't believe him. But honestly, could they blame him? Ever since Todd finally got a really good look at how she looked without her motorcycle helmet on, he could see her true beauty. Sure, for some reason, she still wore her motorcycle suit to school everybody...for some reason...but - also for some reason - she looked even more attractive in her motorcycle suit.

But, at the same time, he was worried about what Maurecia would think of this. He knew Maurecia would develop jealously if she saw any girl with him.

Todd took a quick glance of all sides of the cafeteria, looking to see if Maurecia was sitting somewhere. He didn't see her.

"What have you got there, Brother T? The rectangle-shaped thing?" said Jenny.

Todd blushed...again. No one had ever called him Brother T before...not even Jenny.

"Uh...it's called a Nintendo Switch...I got it for Christmas..." Todd managed to say.

"That's real cool! I've been starting to play a couple of games over at my friend Joy's house. I think it was on something called the Wii U. It was real fun."

Todd swore he heard of someone named Joy before, but he couldn't put his finger on it.

"What game you got there, bro T?"

"It's called Super Smash Bros. Ultimate."

"I've heard that game is really good! Say...maybe you can let me try it out?" asked Jenny, in a rather sweet voice.

Todd was genuinely surprised by this. Nobody ever asked him if they could try out a game he was playing, like ever. And this was the girl he was develop- no, no. "I'm not developing feelings for Jenny." he thought to himself. "This is just a phase, I'm sure it will pass within a couple days." As he cleared his thoughts, he passed Jenny his Switch, and she began playing the game. Surprisingly, she played to the game for the remainder of lunch.

Unbeknownst to Todd, Maurecia was sitting at the other end of the cafeteria, in a spot that Todd missed when he scanned the cafeteria earlier. When she saw Jenny sit down near Todd, she was getting suspicious, and tried to tune into their conversation the best she could, considering how far she was from the two. She was seeing Jenny play on Todd's...gizmo, or whatever. She didn't know what the rectangle-shaped screen Todd had was. But she knew Jenny was having fun on it. Could it be that...one of them liked the other? Could it mean that one of them was going to ask the other to the upcoming dance? She was starting to get worried, for she had planned to ask Todd to the Pre-Spring Break Dance sometime next week before it happened.

When the bell signaling the end of lunch rang, Jenny got up from her seat and handed Todd's Switch back to him.

"Boy, my friend, you've got real fine taste in games! Man, we've got to hang out sometime together, Brother T!" said Jenny.

Todd blushed, once again. No one had ever asked if they could hang out in the future in a long while, not even Maurecia, surpisingly enough.

"Well, my friend, I'll see you tomorrow!" exclaimed Jenny again.

"Bye..." Todd said. He slowly got up from his chair and walked to his next class. He sure had a lot of things on his mind now.

Todd's next two classes went by fairly smoothly, and after the day ended he immediately headed to his room, sat down on his chair, and got on to his computer.

As he was booting up his computer, millions of thoughts ran through his head. He didn't know why all of a sudden Jenny wanted to sit next to him, let alone suggest hanging out with him in the future. "Was it...that Jenny saw the blush and knew it was because I was- NO! No! I'm NOT developing feelings for her, it's JUST a phase!" he thought to himself. He was sure it would pass eventually...hopefully before the Pre-Spring Break Dance. He didn't exactly want to go to that dance. He wasn't even a very good dancer anyways.

As he was thinking to himself, he saw a notification on the online gaming engine he uses the most, Steam. It was a message from one of his friends.

"hey dude there's this really cool thing happening on casuarina, everyone's having a blast, you should join" - ObiWan2, 3:57 PM

Now that he was home, alone by himself, and with his parents still at work, Todd showed no hesitation in joining the bandwagon.

You see, Todd was a server administrator for CoolGamerz Jailbreak, a community server on the multiplayer first-person shooter Team Fortress 2. He had been an admin for the past year. It was a job that greatly required leadership qualities, which Todd had shown he had those skills in the past. So one day he sent in an application, and to his surprise, he was accepted.

But Todd swore to never tell his peers at school about his hobby. He didn't know of anyone besides him that had a hobby like this, and was afraid he'd get mocked for having an administrative job...on a video game. He thought that kids would think you were cool if you we're an administrator, except if it was for a video game. But then again, maybe they would think we was pretty cool anyways, he thought. But he was sure it wasn't likely.

He logged on to Team Fortress 2, under his Steam name "TheToddster179", and joined the server.

[***ADMIN***] TheToddster179: so what's this cool new thing i'm hearing about?
[***Senior Mod***] ObiWan2: it's this really funny thing on this map, there's a glitch in box game where you can shoot the boxes if you have a ranged weapon, it's so good
[***ADMIN***] TheToddster179: what, why have i never heard of this glitch, lol
[***ADMIN***] Jeffrey: idk but it's so much fun
[***Mod***] Tomothi93: boxes are all the map its so crazy
[***VET***] Crazydude12: omg so many boxes!

Now, in Jailbreak, there are two teams, Guards and Prisoners. The prisoners are stripped down to their melee weapons and locked away in the cells at the beginning of the round, while the guards must instruct them on what to do. One of the guards is the "warden", who instructs the prisoners to do whatever minigame he desires, as long as it follows the rules of the server. The prisoners compete in the minigame for last request, which comes in the form of variety of different effects and perks. A prisoner can also choose to rebel: if a prisoner rebels, they can be killed. When a guard or prisoner is guard, they must wait until the next round begins to respawn.

While waiting for the next round to begin, Todd decides to go into his Steam Browser and check his Facebook. When he got on, he found in his notifications that he had gotten a new friend request from someone. He checked who it was from, and was surprised - and increasingly nervous - when he found out it was from Jenny.

He really was starting to question at this point if Jenny actually liked him...as in "like" liked him. He shook his head at that thought, thinking it couldn't be possible. He already had Maurecia crushing on him, so why would Jenny start doing the same?

He accepted her friend request, and tried not to think much of it. He thought that she probably simply wanted to add him to her friends list, nothing more. A lot of his friends, including the ones he went to Wayside with in the past, had done the same thing. Why would Jenny be any different?

He went back to his game, without closing his Steam Browser...or Facebook...in case he needed to look up something later. The next round has thankfully just began, and Todd was ready to participate in another match.

But not even 5 minutes into the round, he heard a ringing sound come from his headphones. He knew it wasn't from the game, so he checked his Steam Browser. He didn't see anything on the current site the browser was on (Google Search), then he realized he had forgotten to close Facebook, and that the sound was probably coming from there. He checked, and found - of all things - Jenny was calling him. And it wasn't just an ordinary call, it was a VIDEO chat she wanted to start.

That REALLY made Todd nervous. He was seriously starting to wonder if the odds of Jenny liking him was getting favorably high.

But, nonetheless, he accepted the call, as he didn't want to be rude.

After a few seconds of loading, the call started.

"Hey, Brother T, what's up?" said Jenny.

"Er...fine...I guess." said Todd somewhat nervously.

At this point, Todd decided to ask Jenny a question about earlier that day at lunch...he was nervous to ask her for fear of her answer, but he decided it worth a risk.

"So uh...why did you want to sit down next to me at lunch?"

"Cause you're one rad bro, my friend!" exclaimed Jenny quite loudly.

Todd was surprised. Everytime Jenny made a comment like, he thought that the chances of Jenny liking him were only increasing further and further, and he feared she'll eventually drop a comment that will 100% confirm she likes him. But why WOULD she like him, he thought? He remembered, this was the girl he THOUGHT had a crush on him back on Wayside because of her habit of jumping over him on her motorcycle...until he found out that wasn't the case, when intruded on her and Maurecia's attempt to jump over former Wayside principal Mr. Kidswatter in his personal ice skating rink. He even distinctly remember Jenny not being too pleased about it, even telling him he needs help. There was NO way she could be developing feelings for HIM...right?

"Um, well...thanks. I'm flattered," said Todd, ever so slightly blushing.

"I just wanted to call you to see what you were up to, my friend." said Jenny.

"Oh, uh, well, I was just playing a game here...a different game than the one who tried out today..." Todd said.

"Oh wow, that IS grade A+!" Jenny said.

"Umm...about today...did you really mean it when you said you wanted to hang out with me sometime?" Todd knew he was taking another risk asking this question for fear of Jenny's answer.

"Of course I did, Brother T! I don't know what it is about you, but man are you just the bomb! Any girl would be lucky to hang out with you!" Jenny exclaimed.

Todd was seriously wondering if he should keep track of the chances of Jenny liking him in percentage form. Because at this rate, he thought the chances were about 80% at this point. And it only seemed to be getting higher with every compliment Jenny made.

"Well, I'm...I'm really flattered by...by your-" stammered Todd, but then:

"HEY, JONAS67 FREEKILLED ME!"

"What was that I heard, bro T?" said Jenny.

"Uh, nothing! Just...a part of the game I'm playing. Could you excuse me for a second."

Todd quickly went back to his game of Jailbreak, and took a look at the damage logs, seeing that Jonas67 did indeed freekill Hanierlaborne.

"Hey Jonas, why did you kill Hanier? I need an answer, or I'll have to teamban you."

Jenny heard everything Todd was saying.

"Hoo boy howdy, you sure sound like a man taking charge! Do you have something special you do in this game you're playing?"

"Uhhh...uhhh...err...leadership qualities?" Todd said nervously.

"That sounds like a hoot! I really like people who take leadership! You my man are the bomb for sure!"

"Uh yeah...hehe...so I'm kinda busy playing this game right now...I'll see you tomorrow at school, I guess..." Todd said.

"You bet! See you then, Toddster!" Jenny said, just before ending the call.

At this point, Todd didn't know what to think. He may have a had a million thoughts running in his head before, but now his mind was just sitting still in shock.

He eventually returned to his game of Jailbreak. "Sorry for the lack of mic or chat use, I was having a Facebook call with one of my...friends."

"Oh really, what was her name?" said Jeffrey.

"Uh...here name is Jenny..."

At that moment, a player named SheldonRockztheLee89 got onto his mic:

"Jenny is here? WHERE?"

Todd scratched his head.

Todd was playing Team Fortress 2 for about three hours before he signed off, had dinner, took a shower, and went to bed. In spite of the events of today, he was still trying to deny he was developing feelings for Jenny. "Maybe this is a really long dream I'm having, and today never even happened yet," he thought. He decided to pinch himself to see if his theory was true. It wasn't.

Nevertheless, Todd was relieved he could go to bed, and hopefully dream of something that would let him forget about today. But, that wasn't the case.

The next thing he knew, Todd found himself on a couch in a living room that looked...wildly different than the one in his house. He scanned the room, and found a diploma hanging on the wall behind the couch. He took a good look at it, and found his name on it. It was a degree in medicine: one of the fields Todd showed interest in pursuing. Todd was confused, as he had no knowledge of ever receiving one; he was still in high school, after all!

But when he felt his chin, he discovered many hairs on it. He looked in a mirror, which was conveniently placed next to the diploma, and discovered he had a full-grown beard, AND a mustache! Sure, Todd was starting to grow some facial hair, but he didn't understand how he suddenly had facial hair all of a sudden.

However, none of this was even the most shocking part of this. Todd noticed by a conveniently placed clock another photo hanging on the wall. He went to take a look at it, and what he saw literally made him jump up in complete shock.

It was wedding pictures of him and...Jenny.

You'd think this would be any kid's greatest dream, but this wasn't the case for Todd. At this point, he was in full panic mode. He was hyperventilating, he felt like he was going to scream. This SHOULD be a wonderful dream for him, but all he could think is why he went from a high school student to...this!

Suddenly, the door creaked open, and in came Jenny.

"Hey honey, how was your day?"

"Uh...I haven't even experienced the day yet...where am I!?" yelled Todd in a panic.

"Oh, honey, you have such a sense of humor."

Todd just sat on the couch, frozen in shock.

"You know, you've done so much for me, dear..." said Jenny. This made Todd scratch his head. "I think this deserves a kiss," she said.

At that point, Todd had just sat still, completely frozen. He may have looked calm on the outside, but on the inside his emotions were running wild. He had never kissed anyone before in his life. There was that one time a couple Christmases ago, in middle school, when Maurecia made an attempt to kiss him by using a mistletoe...but Todd managed to avoid it.

Todd just stood perfectly still on the couch, with Jenny leaning in towards his lips, and as she got closer to them, his face was blushing so hard that it almost felt like his cheeks were going to explode. But just as it was about to happen...

RRRRRRRIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNGGGGGGGG!

Todd's alarm clock went off, and he woke up. "It was all just a dream," he thought. But at this point, he came to a realization. Yet again, his cheeks went red. At this point, there was no denying it. It was completely pointless to deny it, now even he would be in disbelief if he denied it.

He had a full-fledged crush on Jenny.

But what was he do? Then he remembered that the Pre-Spring Break Dance was coming in two weeks.

He realized what he had to do. And boy, was it going to be one of the toughest things he's ever had to do in his life.