The Ans walked up to Peach Creek Jr. High that morning, where the message board out front read "Happy Valentine's Day!" then under it, "Go Cobblers!" A bus pulls up and delivers the other kids in the cul-de-sac to the school, except for Sam and Jamie who were both home sick that day.
Inside the school, every hallway was decorated with hearts with lace around them and red, white and pink streamers, inside in a classroom was a drawing of each An on a blackboard, with the words, "An, Ann 'n Anny in" and on the board in the next classroom it said, "Hanky Panky Hullabaloo" in a giant red heart with an arrow going through it, with smaller hearts all around it.
Outside the room there was a classic red heart with white lace all around it stuck to the wall, blue letters above the heart said, "Enjoy" and inside the heart, in white said "This converted episode". Across the hall, on the announcement board, one page read, "And if you don't", another page had, "I will hunt you down." Written on it. Another page said the words, "And beat you with a ukulele." The other pages were for school events like last month's pep rally and a bake sale that happened last week.
Finally on the Principal's office door, a short girl with long dirty blonde hair finishes putting the new vinyl words up on his door and steps back to look at it, looking pleased with herself.
"The Original Episode belongs to Mr. Danny Antonucci, but this converted episode was written by and belongs to lolzwaitwhat (also known as Sam A.)"
"Perfect." The girl said, admiring her handiwork, she then looks at the audience, "What? This title sequence was in the episode." She said with a smile and a shrug, "I thought I might play with it a little bit."
Then three spitballs splatter onto the door in rapid succession. The girl scowls and looks toward where the spitballs had come from, rolling up her sleeve and growls, "Why you little…"
"HEY!" an adult male voice calls to the girl from down the hall, "WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?"
"Uh oh…" the girl said as she turned and ran away, muttering swear words as she flees the angry teacher, "WHOSE CLASS ARE YOU IN? YOU'VE JUST EARNED YOURSELF A ONE WAY TICKET TO A MONTH LONG DETENTION MISSY!" the teacher demanded.
"I DON'T GO TO SCHOOL HERE! I'M TWENTY-TWO!" the girl shouted back as she picked up her pace as the teacher shouts threats at her, shaking his fist.
The Kanker brothers, who had been sitting on the bench in front of the principal's office watching the author of their story deface school property and sitting in front of a poster with the words, 'Love: Exciting & New!', watched their teacher chase her down the hallway towards the exit before getting bored and Tee goes back to tearing pages out of his textbook, shoving them into his mouth, chewing them up and hacking them through a straw at the author's disclaimer on the door in front of them some more. Larie was picking random things absentmindedly out of his teeth, looking bored. They knew it was Valentine's day, but their dad told them to never show their, blech, sensitive sides, so they acted like it was any other day.
Unlike his brothers, however, Jay was all for showing An his sensitive side, especially today. He laid on his belly on the floor, a pair of scissors on his left and an open box of crayons to his right, he was making a heart shaped Valentine's day card for An. He was smiling with his tongue lolling out the side of his mouth beside his buck teeth as he put the final touches on his masterpiece. He was so excited to see the look on An's face when he gave her his homemade Valentine! He was sure she'd love it even more since he took the time to make it for her, although, he did kinda wait until the last minute, but he had been kinda busy fantasizing about her reaction to his card then actually making it, but she didn't need to know that.
Larie looked down at his little brother as his older brother shoved the remaining half of the page in his hand into his mouth and began chewing, deciding to aim for the middle of the 'o' in lolzwaitwhat (Author: friggin' jerk!) when Larie smirked impishly and elbowed Tee in the cheek to get his attention, making him swallow the paper he had been chewing. (Author: HA!) He snarled at his blue haired brother and reeled his clenched fist for a revenge punch in the jaw, when he noticed Larie pointing to Jay who was smiling as he colored a badly cut out heart-shaped card on the floor, his feet swinging in the air. "Hey Tee." Larie said, "Check out Mr. Vincent VanStinko!" he teased just as Jay held up his finally completed Valentine, smiling proudly at it. It had come out even better then he had hoped!
The cover had hearts within hearts on the front, Jay was looking over the interior one last time, double checking to make sure everything was perfect. He smiled, satisfied when Tee snatched it out of his hands, "What's this?" he asked in a mocking tone, "Aww, it's a Valentine's Card!" he said, looking at his youngest brother's hard work and trying not to laugh, Larie leaned over to look at the poorly crafted card in his red-headed brother's grasp, ready to help mock.
Jay felt rage surge through him, just because his brothers had decided not to show their girls how much they cared about them on this special day, did not mean they could mess with his special Valentine for An. Jay leapt at his eldest brother, his face contorted into a snarl as he shouted, "THAT'S FOR MY GIRLFRIEND!" crashing into his stomach and knocking Tee into the lockers behind him, making his Valentine for An fall onto Larie's face.
As Tee and Jay wrestled on the floor, Larie opened the card and started to chuckle, aw man! This was so sappy and pathetic! "It's for big An, Tee!" Larie said with a laugh, holding it open for him, revealing the interior to have 'To: An' with a heart next to it, then below it was a picture of an eye with big eyelashes and then the words 'love you' after it, below it was a heart and 'Jay' on the left half of it. On the right half was an illustration of An and Jay kissing with hearts all around them, the words 'true love' along the top, xs and os along the right side of the picture. The card had a few stains on it near the crease of the fold.
The card went against everything their dad told them about wooing girls, especially the biggest one, which was, 'Never say 'I love you' until you put a ring on it.'
And Jay had taken up half of this girly thing to say just that.
Jay hopped off of Tee and leapt into the air over Larie, demanding that he "GIVE THAT BACK!" sounding angrier then he had ever sounded in his whole life as he stomped on his older brother's head, crushing him into the ground and making his tongue fly out of his mouth, Jay's card hovering in mid-air before floating into Jay's hands as Tee pulled himself up off the floor.
He smiled at his Valentine, he was sure that this would win him An's heart. He then looked down at Larie, who he was still standing on, his eyes bugging out of his head.
Jay crossed his arms in front of his chest, letting his fury that his brothers had tried to mess up his gift to her as he declared that "AN IS THE BESTEST GIRLFRIEND EVER!" uncrossing his arms and holding them out, as if to make his point and glaring at his older siblings before recrossing his arms, thrusting his nose into the air and turning on his heel and leaving with a 'hmph!'
Larie pulled himself up off the ground, a little woozy to the blow to the head, "What a girl." He said, annoyed. Tee opened his dump of a locker and grabbing a book for his next class, then turned to Larie and chuckled, "Hormones." Then slammed it shut and laughed all the way to class, Larie stomping behind him, annoyed that he had let their blonde brother pull one over on him.
Jay hummed with his nose still in the air, letting his rage fade away as he began his search for An, a smile sliding up his face as he imagined the look on her face when she saw his card and how he was such a good boyfriend for making one for her himself.
Two fairies wearing white togas with bows and arrows with hearts on the end of them fly into the center of the hallway, watching with devious glints in their eyes as Jay turned the corner.
One of the fairies, who looked suspiciously like Jamie, pulled her hands close to her heart as if in prayer, sang, "When nature stirs on Valentine's Day, and faces children with their splendor…"
The other fairy, who looked suspiciously like Sam, tapped his head and finished with, "Suddenly their minds will stray to thoughts of love and words so tender!" The two fairies then giggled and flew off.
"LET'S LEARN!" A loud, familiar girl's voice cried eagerly. Anny then quickly turned the corner into the hallway, ready to run down the hall as if she was running a race, her arms spread out wide, ready to usher her friends, who were behind her, to follow, "LAST ONE TO CLASS IS A-!" she then paused, confused by her own words and said, "What am I saying?" then let her arms drop to her sides and frowned, annoyed.
She hated school, why was she acting all excited? She wondered this as she adjusted her backpack straps and trudged forward, irritated as Double-N turned the corner.
"Isn't Valentine's Day wonderful?" Double-N asked her friends cheerfully, clasping her hands together and waving them enthusiastically as An dashed past the hallway only for her to realize her friends had turned and ran towards her friends, her arms flapping behind her as she ran to catch up to her friends as Double-N went on to say, "As I'm sure you're aware, it can be quite unnerving to express one's come hither feelings of amore." She said, Anny glanced back at her friend, not really caring what she had to say about this holiday. Honestly, if they didn't get out of school for it, then what was the point of even having it? Anny began tuning her out, which wasn't all that hard since she had been doing it for years.
"Yet," Double-N continued, "this holiday conquers this upchuck of apprehension and allows one that opportunity to let that special someone know you care!" she said cheerfully, clasping her hands and putting them over her heart. She loved this day, she someday hoped that her dream guy would sweep her off her feet and this day just renewed them, even though she usually spent this day with her best friends as her only company. But she refused to give up hope that maybe, this year she could have a romance on this special day.
An grabbed her mouth in mid thought, looking back and forth, as if she feared that someone would attack her by speaking of the holiday (which, with the Kanker brothers around, that was actually a liable threat), she put both her hands on her friend's mouth. "Yucky, squishy, UCKY BOYS, DOUBLE-N!" she cried, then she moved Double-N's head aside to check to see if any were behind her, whispering into her ear conspiratorially, "The fish have chips, my fine friend." Only to then drop her and dash to her locker, quickly spinning in her locker combo, (Author: 1, 2, 3) and letting what resembled a toxic waste dump of the odd and disgusting to flop out with a wet 'SPLAT!'
Anny burst out laughing while Double-N pulled herself off the ground, looking concerned that An had so much… whatever disgusting substance that coated the…objects in her locker.
Judging by it's brown color and the fact that it was An, it was most likely gravy.
"An!" Anny managed through her laughter, "Your locker stinks like…"
"An onion!" An said, holding out the round, layered vegetable, which surprised her friends a little bit since An wasn't very fond of veggies, or really anything healthy for her to eat. And it was huge, where had she found it? Then again, it could have been growing in her locker for all they knew, it was a pretty gross and mysterious place. An then further surprised her friends by taking a large bite out of it and telling them, "Boys do not like stinky breath." With a greenish gas coming out of her mouth that made Anny and Double-N recoil away from their simple friend.
Anny and Double-N didn't like bad breath either, Anny's tongue was stuck between her teeth, disgusted, Double-N just looked appalled. An's usual lack of hygiene made her stink badly enough, but with a mouthful of onion, aww man! It made her smell worse then usual, and that was seriously saying something.
"Camouflage!" she cried, pulling a paper bag on her face with a silly face scribbled on it, with blond hair, eyes looking at one another, a nose so high up that you could see it's nostrils and a big smile with it's tongue lolling out, she pointed at her paper bag with her index fingers and explained that it was, "So boys cannot see you! And…" She then pulled out a red, powder blue and white shoebox, the lid had holes poked in the top, along the side of the lid had a skull and some scribbles beside it. The box itself had once held a pair of Stinkz tennis shoes, a popular local brand, despite it's horrible name, the shorter side of the box had a warning written in red pen, 'Don't open!'
"A Spider!" An said, "Boys hate them, Sam said so." An explained, not noticing the, rather large, spider that was currently climbing up her arm and up her chest and to her neck, she only felt the tickle of it's many legs clambering up her body and made her laugh, she finally moved the bag up off of her face and looked down to see what had been tickling her, only to see the very spider she had worked so hard to catch, even though normal spiders gave her the creeps, (she was fine with ones in her movies 'cause those were cool, but normal spiders just freaked her out) standing on the collar of her shirt.
Her eyes bugged out of her head and her mouth quickly shifted from a happy smile to a terrified frown. She leapt in the air, "SPIDER!" she shrieked, making Anny start to laugh as An then began running around in circles shouting, "GET IT OFF! GET IT OFF! AHHH!" Double-N put her hand to her mouth, concerned for An and the spider that was probably clinging for life on her frightened friend's chest, Anny still laughing at their foolish friend's plight.
An leapt onto a water fountain and leaned her chest towards the spout and pressed the button to release the water from the fountain and slapped at the water coming out onto her shirt, in an attempt to wash the spider off of her, the paper bag was scrunched up on the top of her head and she looked as if she feared that the spider was about to punch her hard in the face as she splashed water all over herself.
Double-N quickly dashed over, deciding it was best to rescue the spider and get it away from An before she got one, or worse, both of them hurt.
"For Goodness Sake!" Double-N scolded, "You're frightening the poor thing!" She cupped her hands around the arachnid and ushering it to crawl onto her hand, she momentarily admired the specimen, it was a big spider, she had to give An some serious credit for finding such a large one, the red band around it's abdomen, she was not familiar with the species and, although she wished to put it in a jar until she could properly identify it. But the spider already frightened An and An it, and despite Anny's laughter, she wasn't exactly fond of arachnids either, so she decided to simply let it go and try to identify it later. She carefully cupped the spider with both hands and carefully released it onto the window sill and watched as it quickly skittered away to the outdoors. "There," she said in a soft voice, "All better."
Anny, got up off the floor, finally recovering from her laughter, and waved her hand at her friends, "Eh, you babies got it light!" she said, making a show out of inspecting her finger nails as she went on to say, "Yup, Valentine's Day is just the same old grind for this hunk magnet." Anny said brashly, Double-N rolled her eyes.
Anny was over exaggerating, of course, besides the Kanker brothers, there were no other boys interested in the Ans romantically. Anny said it was because the Kankers frightened the guys off, but Double-N knew it was because mainly because they were unpopular… and unlucky.
But the Kankers definitely didn't exactly help their chances of finding romance in middle school.
But at least they had each other.
Anny flicked her locker(number 204)'s combo lock so it hit the last number (she had done the first two parts of her locker combo right after closing it before she had left yesterday so she could simply turn it to the last number and open it, she smiled as her lock popped open, she then slipped it off of the locker and used it to pull the door open, her pinky in the air, adding a dash of flair as a large stand plopped out of her locker, a large banner along the top of the stand that said 'Kiss the Hottie', a disco ball spinning and reflecting light everywhere, annoying music starting to play as it slid out of her locker, there were paper cut outs of lipstick kiss marks hanging underneath the sign and a bell sat on the stand, Anny stood beside it, pleased with herself and her stand.
Double-N gave her a flat look, as if to say, 'Really, Anny? A kissing booth?' An simply smiled as Anny pulled out her jar, a piece of paper taped to it that said, '25¢' in green and underneath, in red, 'a smooch'.
"Twenty-five cents a smooch, boys! Line forms to my left!" Anny explained eagerly, indicating her left before testing her bell. She rubbed her hands together eagerly, this had to be her best plan yet!
After a few moments without any customers, An raced up towards their friend, her arm around an unamused Double-N. An absentmindedly scratched her chest while Double-N glanced back and forth only to give their friend a flat look.
Anny's face fell as she realized that no one was coming, for a moment, Anny mused if it was because she wasn't desirable as a girl, but quickly tossed that idea out the window, she was a total catch and every guy should be counting his lucky stars hoping that she might pick 'em. She looked at her friends and said, "Uh, they must be freshening up in the can." She said, then smiled as if nothing was wrong as she stared straight ahead, her hands intertwined on her stand as she waited.
An continued to scratch herself as Double-N sarcastically repeated, "In the can," she then began ruffling around in her bag for her valentines cards, "Right." She smiled as she found them in the same pocket she had slipped them in last night, she pulled them out, the nine cards tied up in a nice pink bow that she had done before bed, not wanting them to get lost in her bag, as if that was even possible since her bag was perfectly organized. "Oh, while we're waiting, I've got a little something here for you." She said, carefully undoing the bow and shifted through them to find the one she had been looking for, which was An's and held it out in front of her while she attempted to pick her nose with her tongue, stopping when she saw the card Double-N held out for her, "Happy Valentine's Day, An!" Double-N said cheerfully.
An smiled and took her card only to then shove it into her face, "Nap time already?" she asked. Anny watched as her brainy friend then joyously handed her a card from her stack, her friend looked so proud of the piece of paper she held out in front of her loud friend, Anny just gave her a look that said, 'are you for real right now?' The cards seemed to be from one of those sets that you'd get from a store, the ones you'd get so you could give them out to everyone in your class, after you taped candy to them, of course. But giving them out to people now, in junior high? It just wasn't done!
"Anny?" Double-N called, handing her a card that said, 'You Electrify me' with two weird coily thingys like she'd seen in an old Frankenstein movie and lightning in the background, with a weird guys' face in a heart and a little scrolly looking thing in the corner with the name 'Nikola Tesla'. On the bottom it had the classic to and from thing, with her name written in Double-N's perfect cursive handwriting under "to:" on a dotted line, and Double-N's real name Ann with "Double N" written underneath it, as if she needed to be reminded who was giving it to her right now. Anny read it in a confused voice, "You electrify me?" she then looked up at her friend with a scowl, "Who the heck is this guy?" she then asked, annoyed.
"Nikola Tesla, Anny!" Double-N said cheerfully as An walked behind her, staring at her card intently, "It's part of my 'Great Minds of Science' Valentine's Day card series!" Anny rolled her eyes, of course, even her store bought valentine's cards had to be educational. Where did she even find these stupid things? 'Nerds 'R Us?'
An smiled as she pointed to her own card, "It has a mind, Anny!" she said, intrigued, she liked her card, it had an explosion on it that looked like a heart with a guy with a beard on it, it read, "I think you're DYNAMITE!" and had a little scroll on the bottom with the name 'Alfred Noble' on it. She had no idea what it really meant, but she liked it and she was glad Double-N had given it to her, explosions were cool!
Anny looked at her card for another minute before looking up at her friends and asking, "Ain't you supposed to give these things to boys?"
Both of her friends paused at this question, but before either of them could utter a word in response, Anny's bell rang, she lit up, "A customer!" she cried, excited as she slammed her card onto the table. Finally, a chance to show everyone how much of a man magnet she was! She looked over towards the bell, An smiled as she turned to it while Double-N looked skeptical.
An's face was the first to change into a horrified one, with Anny and Double-N tying for second as the three girls let out a terrified cry as they looked at Anny's first 'customer':
Jay Kanker.
The Ans cowered a bit at the sight of him, but Double-N quickly realized that he was without Tee and Larie and holding a heart shaped card in his hand while looking hopefully at An, who looked ready to pee herself in fear.
He then smiled in a way that was probably supposed to be alluring but only made An cringe, "Happy Valentine's An!" he said in a flirty voice. An quickly tugged her bag back over her head, which was no longer the funny face it had been earlier, now resembling a one-eyed creature with it's mouth open and it's green tongue sticking out.
The bag was quickly snatched off of her head by Anny, who put it on herself, after all, it was her kissing booth, not An's, she wasn't taking any chances. An fell forward, squeezed the bag (and Anny's face with it) before yanking it off and shoving it back on her head. Anny scowled at her, then shrank down behind her stand as Jay approached An, a big smile on his face, "You're the prettiest, sweetest, cutest, biggest hunk of woman in the land!" he said to her sweetly with wide eyes as he leaned against her, making An sweat profusely, he then backed away and held up his handmade card to her, "Will you be mine?" he asked, closing his eyes and smiling bashfully, eagerly awaiting her cheerful, "Yes!" or "Of course!"
But instead, An turned on her heel and ran as fast as she could, the bag still on her head as she shouted, "AHHH! YUCKY, MUSHY, UCKY BOYS!" only for her to then ram herself into the wall on the end of the hallway and turn back around towards them, still shouting, "WOE! HURT! PAIN!" as she then ran over Jay, destroying his valentine to her, "RUN! PAIN!" she finished as Jay reeled from pain, but if it was from An running him over or the pain in his chest from her rejection, he didn't know.
Anny started to laugh, not just because she enjoyed An's shenanigans, but it was very rare that the Kankers got what they deserved for humiliating with all their stupid affections all the time, and it was funny to see it happen.
Double-N on the other hand, couldn't help feeling sorry for Jay, honestly, she actually thought his gesture was rather sweet. It was also waaayy nicer then what any of them were used to getting from a Kanker.
She could tell from his card that he made it himself, and he had seemed so proud of it when he displayed it to An. It also must have taken a lot of courage to ask An to be his Valentine, he looked crushed when she rejected it, both emotionally and physically. (after An kinda trampled on him to get away.) She actually wanted to comfort him, which she'd never normally consider, but Jay was so upset. And Anny's laughter wasn't helping. She was about to scold her when Anny's bell rang again, "A customer!" she cried out eagerly, she turned to the sound and puckered her lips, only to see an annoyed Karen, wearing her hall monitor sash. Anny quickly sucked her lips back in (a talent she gained after dealing with Tee so much) then stuck out her tongue. She then waved at Karen to shoo with her hands as she said, in a disgusted tone of voice, "In your dreams, pal."
Karen scowled, obviously not in a good mood, (but in the Ans experience, she hardly ever was.) and slammed her hand on the table, "Get this hunk of junk out of the hallway and get to class." She ordered angrily. Anny snarled at her, she had worked on this 'hunk of junk' for hours! "Don't let your brains go to your head, Miss Hall Monitor!" Anny snapped in response, it wasn't her best quip, mind you, but it seemed to make Karen angry so she felt as if she had managed to get a little payback, she turned away from Karen defiantly, pouting.
Karen's face then lit up as she said, "Oh!" and proudly pulled out a clipboard, making sure to lick her pencil before she wrote on it and tore the sheet off of the page, "You just got yourself a detention." She said smugly before adding, "Pal." As she handed the yellow slip of paper to Anny who, after realizing what had just happened, snatched it from her hands with a growl, crumpling it in her fists before grumbling and walking around her stand, "Of all the rotten…" Double-N managed to comprehend as Anny tossed the slip over her shoulder with a hateful expression as she then shoved the stand back into her locker.
Double-N gently tapped on Karen's shoulder, "Come, now, Karen." She said in a pleasant tone, hoping that today, maybe Karen would be reasonable and just let Anny off with a warning for once, she smiled cheerfully at her as she then said, "Why taint the emotional sincerity of Valentine's Day with a detention slip?" Karen glared at her and slapped another slip into her hand and put her face merely inches from Double-N's and said, in an annoyed tone, "That's for sticking up for Dorky."
Double-N felt as if she was going to be sick. Detention? She'd never gotten a detention before! And all for asking Karen to be a little kinder today!
"But I've never had a detention!" she cried, upset that she had gotten such a horrible thing for doing basically nothing while Anny carried her books to class, Karen smirked a bit as she kicked Anny in the rear, making her nearly drop her books onto the ground, luckily Anny was pretty quick and agile, so she managed to not drop them, and then dash away as Karen shouted for her to "MOVE IT, SLOUCH!" She then leaned her head back and laughed as she followed Anny to class, loving the power of being a Hall Monitor, leaving Double-N to wish that the teachers had picked someone who actually treated their fellow human beings as such to be the hall monitor instead of Karen, who usually just picked on them and gave Anny and An detention because she could.
Double-N looked at her own detention slip, wondering how she could explain this to her parents, when she heard a strange sound coming from the janitor's closet. It almost sounded as if… as if someone was crying…
Double-N quickly shoved her accursed detention slip into her bag while pulling out her books for her next class as she quickly shuffled towards the janitor's closet, the sound of sobbing getting louder as she got closer to it.
When she finally opened the door, she was shocked to see Jay Kanker curled up on the floor, bawling his eyes out in a puddle of his own tears.
"Jay?" she asked softly, not wanting to frighten him, he was already upset, she didn't need to make it worse. "Are you, um, crying?" she asked.
"No!" he managed through his sobs, not exactly putting on a convincing act.
Double-N stood there, not knowing what to do, she couldn't just leave him crying here, Kanker or not, he was still a person with feelings that were obviously hurt and since the Kankers did not have any friends, the only people she could ask for help with him were Tee and Larie, and she highly doubted that they would be very sympathetic to their brother's current condition, in fact, they'd probably just make it worse. So she tried talking to him again in a calm, soft voice, "Jay…?"
"BIG AN HATES ME!" he wailed before curling back up into a ball and bawling his eyes out.
Double-N felt her heart break for him, while she wasn't fond of the brothers, An hadn't exactly let him down gently. Double-N glanced around for a teacher or someone he could talk to, but the halls were empty, it was just her and Jay.
The bell for their first class rang, Double-N turned and glanced outside, she needed to get to class, or risk getting in even more trouble with Karen the Sadistic Hall Monitor, but she couldn't just leave Jay like this, she was torn, help someone who happily harassed them and pounced on them, or get in trouble because the hall monitor had issues with her and her friends.
"Um…" she said in a soft tone, trying to help him calm down, like she would do with An, "I'm sure it's nothing like that." She said. It wasn't technically a lie, An feared Jay, sure, but she didn't hate him. An was incapable of such a cold emotion, "An's just being shy." Double-N fibbed with a smile that even she could tell was unconvincing, not that Jay was even looking at her, his hands were covering his eyes as more tears ran down his cheeks.
She nervously glanced around, hoping that a teacher or someone else could come in and cover for her so she could get to class and Jay could have someone to help him through his painful time, but no such luck, "Oh dear…" she murmured.
But then again, having no luck was an An's luck.
"Don't you think we should be getting to class?" she asked softly, "It might help get your mind off of your troubles." She said, trying to help Jay and avoid getting any more detentions.
Jay sniffed and lifted his head, giving Double-N just a little bit of hope before crying out, "AND NOW I GOT NO VALENTINE FOR VALENTINE'S DAY!"
At the mention of Valentines, Double-N smiled a bit, 'The Valentines Mother made me write for the Kankers, of course!' she thought as she rummaged through her bag, she pulled out her cards and searched for the brothers' cards, only she couldn't find them.
'What the…' then she remembered that she never finished writing the cards, there was one that she had already filled out for Larie and two blank ones for Jay and Tee still sitting on the coffee table at her house. She cursed herself for forgetting the cards, and snagged one from the pile, it was Darwin card she had picked out for Nate, while she had been hoping to give this to him, she highly doubted that she'd have the courage to even talk to him, let alone give him a valentine. She quickly crossed out Nate's name and wrote Jay's name beneath it, "I-I really must be getting to class," she said, handing him the Valentine, feeling awful for leaving him but was fearful of what Karen might do if she found her still in the hallway, Jay stopped wailing and accepted the card, wondering what it was (his vision was kind of blurry from the tears) "Happy Valentine's Day, Jay." She said in a soft, kind voice before she dashed for class. Jay calming himself so he could read the paper in front of him.
When he finally did he saw the card had an old man pointing to the viewer and holding up a heart with an ape, a weird monkey thing, a caveman and then a normal person with a bouquet of flowers in their hands. In the corner it read, 'Charles Darwin'
"Naturally, I select you?" he read, confused. He looked at the card, Nate's name was under the "To:" part but it was crossed out and his name was underneath.
Now, although neither he nor his brothers liked this fact, it was well known that the Ans, along with Jenny and Karen, all kinda sorta had a thing for Nate, so the fact that Double-N had given him her Valentine for Nate was really nice of her.
Although he didn't really get the old guy on the card, but Double-N was really smart, maybe this card was like those funny cards at those card shops and he didn't get it because he had no idea who… he squinted to read the name on the paper, 'Charles Darwin' was… Jay paused, actually, he did know something about this guy, he discovered evolution! Or something like that… he then remembered the chart that the guy made up and saw that it resembled the card. (Author: he remembered that because it had monkeys on it.) He chuckled a bit, monkeys were funny, it was really nice of her to give him a card with a monkey on it, he got up to thank Double-N for the card, but when he finally left the janitor's closet he saw her dash around the corner, chanting "Late! Late! Late!"
"Double-N?" he called softly, tears still streaming down his face, hoping she could still hear him and come back so he could thank her for being so nice to him and not making fun of him for crying like his brothers would.
That's when, unknown to him, an arrow with a heart shaped arrow head struck him right in the rear.
Well, he felt the arrow, it was kinda hard not to feel a sharp pain in one's butt like that, but he had no idea what just hit him. He soon wouldn't care.
His body twisted and twirled and his eyes turned pink and he leapt into the air, huge hearts in his eyes as he tugged at his bangs.
'Double-N's so nice.' He thought dreamily, 'and sweet and pretty and kind…' his mind began to reel through the things Larie would usually go on about when they were talking about how great their Ans were, his heart pounding wildly in his chest as he did.
The arrow in his bum was making him head over heels for Double-N instead of An, not that Jay minded, after all, An had pretty much stomped all over his heart... as well as a few other organs… and bones and stuff, while Double-N had been kind enough to comfort him when he was upset, despite their history.
He then realized that he and his brothers had class with her and her friends this period, for science class. 'Maybe she'll need a partner!' Jay thought as he hovered to class, giant red hearts floating behind him as he did.
The two fairies from earlier flew down, each armed with bows and looking quite pleased with themselves, the one that looked like Sam squealed, "And so the spring of love is seated deep within the Kanker lad!" The one that looked like Jamie cheerfully sang, "Still, another one is needed for it's blossom to expand!" then the two giggled and held their hands up to their mouths as if they were sharing a juicy secret.
The blonde chick from earlier passes, "CURSE YOU FAIRIES FOR YOUR RHYMING WAYS! Seriously, though, it's hard to get the same feel when I have to make stuff rhyme for you two…"
"GET BACK HERE!" the teacher yelled as he races down the hallway to get her.
"NO!" she shouts back and runs faster.
The fairies, now done with their lack luster rhyme…
"And whose fault is that, Miss Author?" Jamie asked the girl as she flees the angry teacher. The author scowls at the fairies and growls, "You're lucky I'm the only one who can see you freaks right now and that I'm kinda busy with this guy," she snaps, indicating the teacher behind her, "but trust me, you'll get yours and I'll be there to enjoy all the pain and suffering you've got coming to ya."
"Yeah right." Sam scoffs, "From who?" The girl and teacher dash past a short hallway, where Rachel is drinking from the water fountain and the fairies float past that hallway as well, chuckling at the Author's dilemma like the little flying jerks they are, then Rachel abruptly stops drinking and sniffs the air, her face pulling into a scowl, "Rachel smells the inky scent of mountain sprites, come to make mischief among us!" she snarled.
(Author: Her. Muha-ha-ha.)
