NORMAL POV.
It's another day at Retroville. All the gang are on school right now, but Jimmy is not on his usual self that day.
Yeah, he perfected all the tests for that day and he answered the questions at the recitations correctly but he seemed a bit off.
He looks devastated.
And of course, Cindy noticed all that and she started to get worry. Yep, you read that right. She is worried about him.
After class, when Jimmy and his friends got out of the room, Cindy suddenly talked to Libby before they leave the classroom.
"Have you noticed anything strange about Neutron?" Cindy asked while holding her books.
"Now that you mentioned it. He's been like that after the Betty's incident. Do you think he's affected by it?" Libby said.
"I don't know, but I think that's the reason." Cindy said and the two started to leave the classroom.
Later that day, when Cindy was walking Humphrey at the park, he saw Sheen and Carl talking to each other and accidentally heard their conversation.
"What do you think happened to Jimmy? He's acting all strange all of the sudden." Carl said in sad tone.
"He's probably broken about Betty. He really likes her you know!" Sheen said and Cindy started to pout in the background.
"What should we do? He's not cheering up when I gave him an ice-cream."
"Because he's not you Llama freak." Cindy said, entering the conversation between the two.
"Cindy! Good timing. What do you think we should do to make Jimmy okay?" Sheen asked her. She looked at them while cocking one eyebrow.
"Maybe an gadget? I don't know, you two are his friends. Not me."
"But we tried everything."
"Yeah. We bought him some ice-cream, cookies and Sheen even gave him his Ultra Lord action figure." Carl said and Sheen is just nodding beside him.
Cindy sigh loudly and rolled her eyes on them. "That makes a lot of sense. You gave him your favorite things, not his. That's why he's still like that." Cindy explained.
"Then, should we give him Betty?" Sheen suggested.
"NO!" Cindy accidentally shouted and the two guys looked at him with a scared/surprised look.
Cindy paused for a minute realizing what she did.
"I-I mean, is there no other option?" Cindy said avoiding eye contact.
"How about you gave yourself to him?" the three suddenly looked behind them.
"Betty?" Cindy said in a form of question, and Betty just smiled at them.
"Betty!" Sheen shouted, then suddenly grab her arm. Betty looked at him with a confused face.
"You gotta come with us! We need you so badly!" Sheen said, and Betty started to feel weird around him.
"No, I'm not the one you need. Can you please let me go." Betty said while trying to get rid of Sheen.
"But you're our only hope." Sheen reasoned, and Cindy just rolled her eyes in the background.
"No. I'm not." Betty said, then approach Cindy. "She's your only hope." Betty said, and Cindy cocked an eyebrow at her.
"Cindy?!" Sheen shouted.
"Are you making fun of me, Quinlan?" Cindy said, while putting one hand on her hips.
"I'm serious. Jimmy needs you. He always do." Betty said, and muttered the last part. Cindy's face softened for a sec. Neutron always need her? Then she let out a sigh.
"Fine. If that's what you said, then I think I should give it a try. Not that I want to though." Cindy said. Betty smiled and the two looked shocked.
"Okay, you two. What's the plan?" Cindy asked.
Then, Sheen and Carl looked at each other.
"What should I do, Libby?!" Cindy said on the phone while looking nervous.
Yup, she's nervous.
Sheen and Carl said that she should come to his lab at 5:00 and everything is under control by them.
"I don't know. You agree on this, so you should have a plan."
"That's the problem Libs! I agree on this without having a plan. My emotion is at fault in this." Cindy said, looking irritated.
"Just be natural and do everything to make him feel okay. That's the goal right?"
"But how?"
"I don't know, but I know you can come up with it. You're smart after all." Libby said, and Cindy started to think. Yeah, she can do it. How hard can it be?
5:00, at Jimmy's clubhouse.
"Okay Cindy. We're counting on you." Sheen said while saluting to Cindy.
Cindy just rolled her eyes on him and Carl started to scan Jimmy's hair on the scanner while holding his bag full of Jimmy's hair.
The door started to open and Cindy got inside Jimmy's lab.
"Who's there?" he heard Jimmy talked when she got inside.
"It's me, Cindy." Cindy said and saw Jimmy on his workbench.
"Cindy? how did you got here? And what are you doing here?" Jimmy asked while looking at her. Cindy let out a nervous laugh then she walked towards him.
"Just visiting. What else?" Cindy answered, but Jimmy looked at him with half lidded eyes.
"Alright, alright. I'm here because they sent me here." Cindy said, giving up. She hates him, so she's not here to just visit him. What other excuse can she say?
"Sent you?" Jimmy said, looking confuse.
"Yup." Cindy said, while sitting on his workbench. "I don't why they sent me though." Cindy lied.
"if you don't know the reason, then why did you still do it?" Jimmy asked, while giving her a suspicious look.
"You asked too many questions." Cindy said, looking irritated to him.
"If you don't know your purpose here, then I suggest you leave. I have so much to do." Jimmy said, moving away from his workbench.
Cindy looked at him then she gulped really hard and started to breath deeply and soundless. She started to lower her pride a little.
"I have noticed that your acting odd these past few days. You okay?" Cindy said, looking straight to the wall, avoiding his face.
Jimmy stopped suddenly and looked at her. "Is that the reason, why you're here?"
Cindy started to tense. "Damn it, damn this."
She tried to look at him and nod her head to him. He looked at her then he looked down.
"I'm fine. I'm just not feeling well these past few days. That's all." Jimmy said, then he continue he's work.
Cindy looked at the ceiling first then at him. She took another deep breath then walked towards him.
"Look, I know that there's something more on why you're acting like that. You can tell me you know." Cindy said. Jimmy looked sadly at her and it breaks her heart.
"There's nothing more." Jimmy simply said, then he looks away.
"Oh come on Neutron, I know there's more. You can't fool me, I can see it through your face." Cindy said, starting to get frustrated.
"I said, there's nothing more. That's it. Can you just please leave!" Jimmy said in a form of shout.
And that's it. Cindy's frustrated now. She grab his shoulders for him to look at her.
"Don't act like a jerk and just tell me. Everyone's so worried about you!" Cindy shouted, but Jimmy only looked at her with no expression on his face.
Then, Cindy's face started to softened and she started to let go of his shoulder slowly. "Including me. I'm so worried sick about you." she finally confessed while looking down and while holding her other arm.
Jimmy looked at her with widened eyes. Then it changed into a sad expression. "I... I'm sorry."
Cindy looked at him and it breaks her heart again when she saw him with that expression again.
"I-I just don't know what to feel anymore." Jimmy said, then he looks away. "That's why I'm doing some experiment for this feeling to go away already."
Cindy's face started to look sad and jealous. "You really like her huh."
Jimmy nodded. "You're right. She's the one, I'm supposed to like." Jimmy said, that confused Cindy. He's supposed to?
"What are you talking about?" Cindy asked. Jimmy looked at her with a serious and nervous look.
"You might find it funny, but after the incident, I just realized something." he said, not taking his look away from her.
"I realized that... y-you're the one that I really like."
And that's it folks! Now, he's the one who spilled the beans this time!
CINDY: ..
JIMMY: ..
CARL: What happened to Jimmy and Cindy?
SHEEN: What else? I bet they fight again!
LIBBY: Na-uh. You're wrong. Something good finally happened, I bet!
CARL, SHEEN, LIBBY: *looked at Cindy and Jimmy*
JIMMY: *blushes*
CINDY: *blushes*
LIBBY: Told ya.
Then out of the blue, Sheen handed 20 bucks to Libby.
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