It was finally the night of the play and all the actors were in the school auditorium, getting ready for the play to go on, in ten minutes. Mrs. Dickie was putting the finishing touches on Deidra's hair and costume.
"Where is Beavis?" Deidra muttered to herself. Just as she looked over her shoulder to check however, Beavis walked in through the stage-door with a small, satisfied smirk. He had to walk to the movie theater with Butthead but thankfully for him, Butthead had to go to the bathroom before the movie started, giving Beavis the perfect opportunity to run back to the school to attend the play. Buzzcut sighed unhappily at the sight of one of the two students he despised most.
"Beavis!" Deidra cried happily, running over and giving him a hug.
"What? Ya didn't think I'd ditch my girl, did ya? Heh-heh!" He grinned. Deidra giggled as Buzzcut walked up to them.
"COME ON, BEAVIS!" He yelled, breaking the loving moment.
"GET IN YOUR COSTUME! WE'RE ON IN FIVE MINUTES!" Beavis quickly followed Buzzcut, Casandra and Gena backstage. Casandra was playing Lady Capulet while Gena was playing Lady Monique. The play was going well, much to Buzzcut and McVicker's surprise. Two and a half hours later, the final scene was coming up: the death of Romeo and Juliet.
Beavis had just kissed Deidra, who was lying motionless on a canopy bed, which was surrounded by beautiful candles to light up the darkened room, and had just taken out the small bottle of water that served as the poison.
"Come, bitter conduct! Come, unsavory guide. Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on the dashing rocks thy seasick, weary bark. Here's to my love!" He drinks the fake poison.
"Oh, true apothecary, thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss, I die." Acting like he was struggling to breathe, Beavis fell to the stage floor, pretending to die. When it was her cue, Deidra slowly opened her eyes to see Beavis on the ground as Earl, who was playing Friar Lawrence, said his lines. She gasped, falling to her own knees beside him and took his limp body close to her, holding his head in her hand, her other hand around his waist.
"What's here? A cup, closed in my true love's hand?" She asked, picking up the small bottle.
"Poison, I see hath been his timeless end…Oh, churl! Drunk all and left no friendly drop To help me after? I will kiss thy lips. Haply some poison yet doth hang on them, To make me die with a restorative." Tears filled her eyes as she closed them, cupping Beavis' face in her hands as she kissed his lips, remembering her next line as she pulled away.
"Yea, noise? Then I'll be brief." She pulled the fake sword out of Beavis' pocket, holding it high, above her.
"Oh, happy dagger, this is thy sheath. There rust and let me die!" She wedged the fake dagger beneath her arm, pretending to stab herself as she fell to the floor, beside her boyfriend. At the end of the play, the curtains closed and the audience applauded loudly.
"Who woulda thought that little bastard would be good at somethin' for once...Uhhhhh..." McVicker whispered to Buzzcut as Beavis returned with the rest of the cast to take a bow. Taking Beavis' hand in hers, she smiled at the crowd as the cast took one, final group-bow. Deidra could suddenly see the World around her loose color, her ears feeling like bees had stung the inside of them, making her unable to hear, and eventually her World went black.
"Deidra? Deidra?!" Beavis began to panic when Deidra passed out. He thankfully caught her just before she hit the hardwood floor. McVicker ran to his office to call for an ambulance, and everyone in the audience along all the kids on stage, surrounded Deidra.
"BACK UP! EVERYBODY BACK UP NOW!" Buzzcut ordered, taking Deidra from Beavis' arms as Mrs. Dickie came back in the room with a cold washcloth from the nurse's office. Beavis was worried but he did as told, nervously wringing his hands as he took a few steps back. An ambulance pulled up to the school several minutes later, causing everyone to keep track of what was going on, not once taking their eyes off what was happening before them.
"That poor girl…" Murmured a woman as Deidra was wheeled out of the school on a stretcher.
"Is she gonna be okay?" Bevies whimpered, on the verge of tears. Mr. Vandressen rested a comforting hand on his student's shoulder.
"She'll be ok, Beavis…" He tried to reassure the boy with a small smile.
"I'll drive you to see her, m'kay?" Beavis nodded, feeling a little better, only to overhear Gena talking with Kimberly.
"Bet she did that on purpose! The dork! Milking her time in the spotlight all she can." Gena remarked, earning a sicker from Kimberly. Without a word, Beavis approached Gena and Kimberly before punching them both in the face, hard enough to knock them unconscious. He then stormed back outside without a word, still on the verge of tears.
"Ready to go, Beavis?" Mr. Vandressen asked as he walked outside to see Beavis standing alone.
"Y-Yeah..." Beavis forced a sad smile in an attempt to regain his composure. Mr. Vandriessen put a comforting arm around Beavis' shoulders as he lead the teen to his car. Any, other day, Beavis would have been bothered by a teacher, a man teacher especially, putting an arm around him like this but today, he would take any kind of comfort he could get. Beavis remained silent through the drive as merely speaking one word alone would cause the blond to break down again.
Beavis breathed a small sigh of relief as he rushed into the hospital, ahead of Mr. Vandressen. He quickly asked for his girlfriend's room number, running to it as fast as he could.
"Deidra?!" Beavis quickly entered the hospital-room that contained his girlfriend. The only sound in the room was the sound of the heart-monitor that was above the bed. Deidra looked perfectly-fine to Beavis except she was a little pale and had been hooked up to oxygen. He was able to relax a little when he saw she was just asleep, her Father in a chair, beside the bed.
"She's gonna like...be okay, right?" Beavis questioned Deidra's father as he nervously approached her.
"She'll be okay…I guess the play was a bit too much for her." Her dad sighed tiredly. Beavis whimpered sadly as he gently took her hand in his. There was no way she could die yet! They had just only begun to date.
Slowly opening her eyes, Deidra smiled at the sight of her boyfriend.
"Hey, cutie…" She whispered softly.
"Deidra...W-What happened?" Beavis' eyes began to tear up once again.
"I don't know…" Deidra admitted, hating to see him cry. She wanted to find some way to comfort him but she was not entirely sure how.
"Are you gonna...g-gonna..." Beavis sniffled as tears began to fall. Deidra closed her eyes, shaking her head.
"Don't think about that…" She insisted.
"Let's just try to forget about my being sick and have fun together…Enjoy each other…"
"Um...okay..." Beavis smiled softly, finally accepting that there was nothing he could do to save her. Deidra gently kissed the back of his hand before shutting her eyes and going back to sleep. One week later, Deidra was finally back at school. It was lunchtime at Highland High and Deidra was going to meet Beavis in the lunchroom when Kimberly, one of the popular girls had walked up to her with a smile.
"Hey Deidra, I just wanted to say, no hard feelings." Kimberly lied as she walked beside Deidra, to the lunchroom. Deidra just gave her a little smile.
"I don't know what you're talking about…" She bit her lip and looked down awkwardly.
"Deidra, you'd look so beautiful if you just knew how to do your makeup." Kimberly sighed before pausing for a minute and taking Deidra's arm.
"C'mon, eat lunch with me!" She insisted with a smile as the two girls walked into the cafeteria together.
"You want a Tic-Tak?" Kimberly asked. Deidra shook her head in response.
"No thanks…" The brunette replied, looking around to see everyone laughing at a piece of paper in their hands. Kimberly walked over to a table and picked up one of the flyers to look at it.
"Wow! Is that you?!" Kimberly exclaimed, holding the paper out for Deidra to see. Someone had photoshopped a picture of Deidra's face onto a model, wearing a bikini turned sideways with the words 'Virgin Mary?' at the bottom in bold, black letters. Deidra looked up from the photo to see Kimberly giving her a mean smirk.
"Nice bod!" She snickered. That was when Deidra realized that everyone was laughing at her, most students staring at her. With her heart beating quickly, Deidra's breathing grew heavy as she felt like the walls were closing in on her. It got to the point where she had to get out of there. Without a second thought, she turned around and began to run, only to run straight into Beavis' arms, eyes squeezed shut with tears.
"Whoa! Heh-heh! Deidra? Hey, what happened?" Beavis frowned in concern as he placed his hand beneath Deidra's chin to lift her gaze up to meet his. She looked up to see people still laughing and staring at her.
She hoped that Beavis would understand what she was trying to say even though she remained silent. Beavis narrowed his eyes at the laughing crowd before letting out a sigh.
"Which one of these whore's asses do I need to kick?" He growled in a dark tone that not even Butthead had heard come from him.
"I don't know…" Deidra answered in a voice that only he could hear.
"C'mon, Deidra..." Beavis took Deidra's hand in his and began to lead her out of the school. If the others were upsetting Deidra, his girlfriend this badly, then they were going to skip school that day. That was what he and Butthead would usually do when the students and even some of the teachers went too far with their bullying after all. Stroking the back of his hand with her thumb, Deidra followed Beavis out of the school.
"Where are we going?" She asked as she walked next to him, on the sidewalk.
"You'll see..." Beavis managed to smile, despite how angry he still was. After a short while of walking, Beavis lead Deidra to a small lake that was hidden in the woods.
"When me and Butthead can't like...deal with everyone else's crap, we like to come here. We're the only ones that know about this place, heh-heh..." He explained.
"Well, I won't tell anyone…" Deidra smiled as they walked closer to the lake.
"It's so quiet and peaceful here…" She sighed in content as she and Beavis sat down beside the lake, taking their shoes off and sticking their toes in the water.
"Yeah, heh-heh! Last place you'd expect to find me and Butthead, huh? Hm-hm-heh!" Beavis joked with a tiny chuckle.
"Sometimes, after days like this, even a couple of buttmunches like us need some peace and quiet though..." He admitted with a sigh.
"Really?" Deidra asked teasingly with a playful smirk on her lips as she leaned back and laid back on the grass, her hands behind her head. Beavis soon joined her.
"Peace and quiet seems like a Foreign thing with you guys." She giggled before leaning over and kissing Beavis' cheek.
"Heh-heh! Well, sometimes I just need some time to think..." Beavis chuckled with a small blush. Feeling something she never felt before, Deidra gave Beavis a flirtatious smirk.
"You're so cute when you blush…" She scooted closer to him. All Beavis could do at this point was release a seemingly-endless string of nervous giggles as his face began to turn completely red. Deidra rested her head on his chest, smiling up at him.
"Don't be nervous…" She reassured.
"Heh-heh! O-Okay, hm-hm-heh!" Beavis shyly placed an arm around her.