Back To School
Madison, Wisconsin
August 26, 1996
11:58 P.M.
Forman Basement
The gang crowded around the clock waiting for midnight to strike. "Man, this is the last two minutes of summer vacation." Hyde said glumly.
"Yeah I know." said MJ in the same tone. "You know what sucks? I may get to go to memoriaal like you guys but I'm probably the youngest kid there." MJ frowned as she finshed he sentence.
"Listen MJ." said Ryan. "There's nobody that's gonna realize that your only 12. Unless they see your ID card."
"I guess you're right." MJ replided. "But I can still hang with you guys right?''
"Sure." said everyone.
"10 seconds!" yelled Tyler.
"10, 9, 8," the gang started to count. "7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1,0."
"Happy New Year!" yelled Christian.
"Christian," Ryan said. "It's not 1997 yet. You'll have to wait a while to yell that out."
The gang poped in some home movies that they taped starting when they were 6. All the way back to 1988. They started laughing when they were watching the best times of their lives. "Hey Stephanie." said Tyler. "I didn't know your dad was in ABBA."
They all had a good laugh and kept watching untill they fell asleep which was at about 5:00. Luckily they all woke up once they heard Donna open up the basement door looking for Ryan and MJ. "There you two are!" she exclaimed. "I should have known. Eric! The kids are down here watching t.v."
"Ok honey." replied Eric.
"Who wants breakfast?" asked Donna.
The second they all heard that they jumped up from where they were and ran up the stairs. Well, everyone except for Hyde and Stephanie. Stephanie's leg was asleep and Hyde didn't want to leave her behind. "You ok darling?" asked Hyde.
"Yeah I'm fine." his girlfriend replied. "My leg's just asleep."
"Here let me help you." he replied. Hyde walked over to Stephanie and helped her stand up and walk up the stairs. "You gonna be fine now?"
"Yeah." she replied.
So the two headed upstairs and grabbed breakfast. "Back to school man." said Hyde.
"A new school." said Tyler. "And I've only been here since January."
Jennifer hadn't talked since they had counted down to midnight. "I hear they have a dodgeball team over at Memorial." she said. "We should all join. I mean we're really good and stuff."
"Well, we'll have to try out though." said Ryan.
So they finished up breakfast and were going to go to school when Stephanie remembered something, "You guys!" she yelled. "We don't have to be at school untill 8:40!"
"Yeah!" they all yelled.
"Shut up!" yelled the next door neighbors.
"Fine!" yelled Ryan.
So the gang hung out untill 8:00 because they had to get to school early so they could get their schedule, get the tour of the school, get to their lockers, sign up for their chosen classes which was Extra gym for Ryan, Jennifer, MJ, and Tyler. While Hyde signed up for Shop, and Stephanie and Christian signed up for band.
"Well, that means two gym classes every day for us four, and you guys have it once." said Ryan. "Holy shit! I forgot I'm in algerbra II, Latin, and biology!"
"Well, I guess we have the same schedule." said Jennifer. "Looks like we'll be seeing each other a lot this year."
"Yup." replied Ryan.
As the day went on Ryan and Jennifer eventually made it to algerbra II. "Who's are teacher?" asked Jennifer.
"Ms.LaPoint." said Ryan. "Wait. Something isn't right. Damn it! Its Tyler's mom!"
"Wait." said Jennifer. "Wasn't she are math teacher just last year?"
"I sure was!'' said Ms.LaPoint. "And just because your my sons friend dosen't mean you'll be getting an easy A. And don't give me any of that 'What?' stuff when I say hi to you everyday Ryan."
"Whatever." he replied.
As the bell rung the rest of the class sat down in their seats. "Hello class." Ms.LaPoint said. "Some of you may remember me from last year while I was teaching at Jefferson."
"Jefferson is a school where fags go to." scoffed Eric one of those losers that went to Spring Harbor.
Just then a vast malority of the class stood up and surrounded him. Of course the reason was because they all went to Jefferson. "What did you say bitch?" whispered Lewis.
"Nothing." studdered Eric just on the brink of crying.
"Enugh, enough." Ms.LaPoint said. "Eric, you had no right to say that, and those who crowded around you had every right to."
"But-" said Eric.
"I don't care what they said. Just go to the Mr.Bishops office." replied Ms.LaPoint.
So Eric stood up and left the class. Much to say after that nobody started badmouthing Jefferson due to the fact that they had the highest ranks up there due to that 8/9 of the school came from Jefferson, and 2/3 of the staff used to work there. And also the fact they had the best atheletes in the school.
After algerbra II it was the day and luckily the day that the dodgeball team was holding tryouts. "You guys ready?" asked MJ.
"Hell yeah!" they all yelled.
"I love to see that entusiasiam in young people and sports tryouts" said Mr.Moss.
"Holy crap!" yelled Ryan. "I didn't know you were the coach of the dodgeball team here Mr.Moss!"
"Well, I was promoted from Jefferson to right here." he replied. "Now, lets get this tryout under way." Mr.Moss grinned.
Looking around them were all the muscular juniors and seniors. The gang were the only freshmen trying to get on the team. "Oh shit." said Ryan.
"Now, there are 61 of you." said Mr.Moss. "There will be nine teams of six, and one team of seven. I'll let you pick your teams. The team of seven will choose one player to be their alternate. So pick your teams." Right away the gang got together on one team.
"Now who's gonna be are alternate?" asked Hyde.
All of a sudden all eyes turned to Christian. "Fine. I will."
So they all got ready to do whatever they were going to do. "Now, were gonna be doing a tournament to see who will represent our school." Mr.Moss said. "I'll number you by seeds to see who'll have a first round by. Now two teams will have those byes while the others will have to play to stay alive." Mr.Moss started numbering them off team by team. Our gang was the last seed and seemed was an extreme underdog compared to the rest of the teams. "Regular rules." Mr.Moss said. "Except there is a new rule this year. You catch a ball, a team member gets to come off the sidelines and join your team again."
"What a surprise." Ryan said. "We're at the bottom of the food chain. But eh, who cares? Lets just whoop some ass!"
So all six balls were layed down at mid-court. "Team 3 are you ready!" yelled Mr.Moss. They all nodded. "Team 10 are you ready!" The gang hesitated for a moment but then nodded. "Play dodgeball!"
Both teams went running up, more like sprinting for the gang, and grabbed the balls. Luck turned out for the gang that they grabbed all the balls. As four of them were turning around they caught them off guard and knocked them out right away. "Yes!" Ryan exclaimed after knocking the biggest one out of the gang. He didn't know but there was a ball coming right at him. Nobody else noticed untill it was just a few inches from him. He duckedout of the way was if he was trying to dodge a rubber bullet.
"What the fuck?" yelled one of the team members on the other team.
"Blind man's punch you retard." Ryan replied. The blind man's punch was Ryan's way of dodging things. When he felt air blowing on his face he would dodge away from it. Right then Ryan scooped up the ball and chucked it right back at the same bastard who tried to get rid of him and hit the guy in the his balls.
With one man down Hyde picked up the ball and just chucked it at the last guy remaning and knocked right off his feet. "Don't mess with a Hyde or one of their friends man." he said.
Needless to say the rest of the "tryouts" went the same way. Them just dominaiting and beating them in a few minutes. "Well," Mr.Moss said. "Looks like we have our team for this season."
"Whoo!" the gang cried out.
"See ya later Mr.Moss." said Tyler.
The gang left the gym leaving the losers behind. "How could we loose to a bunch of freshmen?" asked one. They just couldn't figure it out. But the fact was that it was because the gang had worked as a team and the other teams worked as individuals.