Everyone in the cafeteria looked on in shock as they saw Todd laying on the ground unconscious.
Several students didn't know what to do. Perhaps they should get a teacher, they thought? Maybe call 911? Rarely has a student ever fainted...and even more rarely, because someone asked them out on a date.
But before anyone could decide what to do about the situation, Mac stepped in.
"It's alright, everybody! I know CPR! All this young man needs is some mouth-to-mouth resuscitation!"
Fortunately for everyone, Mac had token CPR training at his old private school, so he knew what to do in cases of people fainting.
He immediately stepped up to Todd, put his mouth on his, and began breathing into it. Slowly, after about 30 seconds of breathing, Todd started to regain consciousness.
"...what...what happened?" asked Todd weakly.
"You fainted." told Mac.
"Oh...er...I fainted? Do you remember the reason why...?" Todd asked.
Mac got straight to the point. "Jenny asked you out on a date."
Todd felt like he was going to faint again, but this time he was able to control himself before he fainted onto the ground again.
"...that sounds...lovely." he managed to get out.
"Great!" exclaimed Jenny. "How bought we hang out at your place tomorrow evening, maybe watch a movie or play a game or something."
"...yeah...that sounds great. My address is 344 South Fairview..." Todd said as he slowly got up from the floor and dusted himself off. Soon after, the lunch bell rang.
"Fantastic! I'll see you tomorrow night at 7 at your place, brother T!" Jenny immediately headed up to Biology.
"Well...looks like you got yourself a date." said Mac.
"Yeah...I just hope Maurecia wasn't around to see or hear this..." said a worried Todd.
Unfortunately, Todd was wrong. Maurecia's fist hit the table she was at. It almost felt like her plans to take Todd to the Pre-Spring Break Dance had been sabotaged right then and there. She wanted to make sure nothing romantic flared up between Todd and Jenny, which gave her a devious idea; she was going to spy on them tomorrow night. Thankfully, she knew where Todd lived, because back at Wayside a few years ago, the former principal Mr. Kidswatter would always call him by his address...for whatever reason. He called him that so often that she had it memorized.
Even if she couldn't take Todd to the dance, she needed to make sure no one would steal his heart from her. Not even her good friend Jenny!
SATURDAY, 6 DAYS BEFORE THE PRE-SPRING BREAK DANCE
Since there was no school today, Todd was able to sleep in a bit. He woke up a 11:00 am, brushed his teeth, and had breakfast. Then, he immediately realized that tonight Jenny was coming over for a...date.
Todd realized if he wanted to make a good impression on Jenny, one of the things he should do is dress nicely. So instead of his putting on his usual Saturday attire, he went to take a shower, put moose in his hair and deodorant on, and put on a long-sleeved 2-buttoned bluish-green polo shirt and a pair of black jeans.
Knowing he had about 8 hours before Jenny arrived, he decided to boot up his computer and spend time on it while he waited for 7:00 PM to come. The first thing he decided to was check his Facebook.
When he got on Facebook, he found he has just received another friend request. When he checked it, he found it was from Mac.
He accepted the friend request, and only about 2 minutes later, Mac sent him a Facebook call. This time, it wasn't a video chat, just a call. Todd accepted it.
"Hey dude, what's up?" asked Mac.
"Nothing so far...just waiting for 7 o'clock to arrive. Just made myself look fancy to make a good impression on her, even though I doubt she'll dress up fancy." told Todd.
"Ah you never know, she might make herself even more pretty looking to make a good first impression on you, you know." said Mac.
"Yeah...I just hope Maurecia doesn't know about this..." said Todd.
"Ah I'm sure even if she did, she won't take it to heart. She seemed like someone who could handle any situation calmly. And I must admit...she is pretty good looking. I really like her long hair." said Mac.
"Oh...maybe YOU could ask her to the dance? I hope she'd be willing to take anyone to the dance, not just me." said Todd.
"You know...that's not a bad idea. Maybe sometime from Monday to Thursday, before the dance, I'll ask her. I'm sure she'd love to go with me." said Mac.
"Yeah, hopefully her love for me doesn't blind her from letting anyone else go with her to the dance..." said Todd.
"Well, I'll see you later. Tell me how the date went tomorrow." Mac told Todd.
"I will. I'm hopeful it will turn at least...alright. See ya." said Todd. Shortly after, he ended the call, and decided it was a good time to log on to Team Fortress 2 and get onto the server he was an administrator for. He played for about 3 hours, then he logged off and decided to play some Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. After about 2 hours of that, it was about 4 P.M. He didn't really have anything to do at the moment, so he decided to take a nap, as best as he could without ruining his shirt and jeans.
Todd had slept for about 2 hours, 45 minutes before finally waking up. When he did, he realized it was 6:45 PM, and realized he had to get ready for Jenny's arrival. He hurried out of his room, grabbed some snacks and put them on the coffee table in his living room, and sat on his couch, which was in front of the door.
Unbeknownst to him, at that exact time, Maurecia had managed to sneak to his house. She hid behind a shrub that was located about 50 ft. from a window, the window in question giving her a good view of where Todd was sitting. Assuming he and Jenny would sit there, she grabbed out a pair of binoculars prepared to use them when the time presented itself.
Todd nervously waited for Jenny arrive, tapping his fingers on the couch while doing so. He had remembered what Mac told him, and was glad he had someone to reassure him that everything will be fine. It was only yesterday that Todd met Mac for the first time, but it felt like they were friends forever at this point. He hoped Mac was right about his date going well.
After about 15 minutes of him tapping his fingers on the couch feeling nervous, Todd heard his doorbell ring. He jumped up from his couch, and headed to the door. "It's now or never." he thought to himself.
He opened the door to see Jenny. Todd was shocked. Not because of Jenny, but because of her appearance at the moment.
As soon as he saw Jenny, Todd immediately was glad he dressed up fairly formally. Because to his surprise, Jenny dressed up pretty formally as well. She wasn't wearing her motorcycle suit this time around. She was wearing a skirt, not too unsimilar to the one Maurecia usually wore, and was wearing a purple sleeveless shirt, and she had put on some lavender perfume. Todd blushed at the sight of this, and the beautiful-smelling perfume only intensified his infatuation.
"Hey, Brother T! Ready to officially start this thing!?" Jenny shouted. Todd was actually starting to like being called Brother T. It had a nice ring to it.
"Yeah...I guess...so what do you want to do...?" asked Todd.
"Hmm, you know...I'm kinda in the mood for a movie. Do you have any romance movies? I really like those most of all." said Jenny.
Maurecia was outside in Todd's yard, peeking through the window through her pair of binoculars. She was getting overly concerned, as people who choose to watch romantic movies on dates tend to end up starting something romantic with the person they're watching the movie with.
"Sure, that's a great idea." Todd agreed. "Hmm...I have the 1997 Titanic movie, how about we watch that?"
"I love that movie! Let's do it, bro T!" exclaimed Jenny.
And as such, Todd popped in the disc into his DVD player. He dimmed the lights, and the two sat themselves down onto his couch as the movie began.
As the movie played, the two had a bit of small talk. One of the questions brought up, courtesy of Todd, was the whereabouts of Myron.
"So, uh...do you possibly know where Myron is right now?" asked Todd.
"Hmm...you know, good question." said Jenny. "I remember back in 8th grade he announced he was running for president of the world, but I never heard from him again. I heard from an anonymous source though that he managed to make it as far as a city in Rhode Island, I believe the name of that city started with a Q."
"Hmm, well that's very interesting." said Todd.
Maurecia, meanwhile, was getting bored sitting in a shrub watching Todd and Jenny from the window. But then she thought, maybe that's a good thing. "Maybe nothing romantic will happen between the two." She crossed her fingers, hoping at the very least it she wouldn't have to witness a kiss between the two, or worse, a full-blown make-out session between the two. That would be truly horrible to watch.
But she didn't realize she was about to witness something nearly as horrible, to her at least.
About an 1 hour and 15 minutes into the movie, Jenny was getting comfortable enough around Todd that she decided to wrap her arm around Todd's shoulders. As soon as Todd noticed this, he blushed pretty hard, but after about 30 seconds, he got comfortable with her arm around his shoulders, and did the same thing around her shoulders.
After about 50 more minutes watching the movie, the two started to feel sleepy. Todd let out a rather audible yawn, took his arm off Jenny's shoulder and gently freed his from her arm, and laid his head on the pillow to his right that was leaning on the arm of the couch. Jenny, noticing this, and almost equally as tired, scott over towards Todd.
"...hey, bro T? ...mind if you roll over onto your back?" she said.
"Uh, yeah, no problem...but why..." Todd tiringly asked.
Immediately, Jenny rested her herself onto Todd, which made him - yet again - blush. He blushed quite hard this time around, harder than when Jenny put her arm around his shoulder. Then, she wrapped her arms around Todd's neck, resting them on his shoulders. Todd kept his blush going, because no girl had ever been this comfortable around him to rest themselves ONTO him. At this point, he was 98% sure Jenny liked him as much as Todd liked her. After about a minute, he felt comfortable enough to wrap his arms around her neck and rest them on her shoulders. And before the two dozed off, Todd thought to himself, "Mac would be so proud of me if he saw this right now."
Todd's parents, who had taken the opportunity to see a movie they've been dying to see in theaters to give Todd and Jenny a chance to enjoy themselves alone, had returned home at about 11:00 PM. When Todd's mother went over to the couch, she saw Jenny laying on top of Todd, both have their arms wrapped around the other's neck rested on their shoulders. Todd's mother thought this sight was incredibly sweet, so sweet in fact that she felt like her heart was going to melt. So she grabbed a blanket and put it over the two, then phoned Jenny's mother that she would be staying the night. Fortunately, she had Jenny's mother's number in her personal phonebook, as the two had once upon a time been co-workers at the office Todd's mother currently works at, before Jenny's mother quit.
Meanwhile, Maurecia, having been incredibly bored and tired watching Todd and Jenny from the window hidden in a shrub for over three hours had fallen asleep by this point. Whereas Todd and Jenny we're having a pleasant night, Maurecia wasn't.
Immediately, Maurecia soon found herself in a mysterious arena, with nine squares separated from one another by about 2 inches each, making a 3x3 grid. Below was a pit of spikes...and the nightmare had only just begun.
"A BRAWL IS SURELY BREWING." said a loud, mysterious voice. Immediately following that announcement came a series of dollar bills with Jenny's face on them. Two dollar bills would slide down two of the rows, and the cycle would repeat itself again and again. Maurecia had to quickly jump to the free row to avoid the dollar bills. The free row was always random.
Next, explosives came dropping from the sky, with one row getting all its squares bomb every two seconds. Again, Maurecia had to shift from row to row to avoid these.
Following that, the middle square fell down into the spikes, and three giant squares, with a picture of Jenny on each side, came moving out and began to move around the other 8 squares in a circle. Maurecia was in between two of them, and had to kept rapidly moving in order to avoid them.
Maurecia had made it to the south middle square when the squares disappeared, and all the other squares descended into the spikes. Two giant Jenny heads emerged, each facing one side of the square, and whenever one of their mouths opened, a giant laser would come out. Maurecia had to quickly run to the other side to avoid the lasers, but the pattern of the lasers was completely random; sometimes, one of the heads would fire a laser many times in a row.
After a minute of dodging lasers, the spikes below disappeared, and the square Maurecia was one broke. She fell down into an abyss and into a dark chasm filled with white platforms. She saw Todd at the very end of this chasm, and she thought her quest for Todd was finally complete; but behind her, Jenny was moving at a rapid pace, and Maurecia had to run and jump across the platforms to avoid her.
But, unfortunately, she wasn't prepared for one of the platforms that lied ahead; it was a long path, and on one side were fans blowing in the opposite direction. When Maurecia made it to this platform, she had no idea she had to move in the direction against the wind as she trekked that path in order to avoid getting blown of, so when she made it on, the fans blew her into the abyss below. As she fell, she could only watch as Jenny made it all the way to the end of the chasm and made it to Todd. Maurecia felt like Todd was stolen from her! As she seemingly fell into the abyss...
...she suddenly woke up in the shrub. She was relieved it was just a dream, but realized at this point that Todd was being stolen by one of her friend at this point...except...was Jenny her friend at this point?
She was still extremely tired, so she fell right back asleep...again...but at this point, she didn't know what to do about the situation...
UPDATE: For those who want to know what the inspiration for the last part of this chapter is, this is where I got it from: watch?v=gSaYjJKkPW8&feature=