So this is a bit longer than usual! I still own naff all!
After a little while we were all feeling the buzz, Claire was choking on smoke, causing Brian to put on a stupid accent.
"Chicks, cannot hold their smoke! That's what it is" we all laughed at him.
"Do you know how popular I am? I'm so popular, everybody love me so much at this school" Claire babbled on.
"Poor baby" Bender smiled at me and threw his arm around my shoulders.
Andrew suddenly burst out of the little old office opposite us, releasing a cloud of smoke. He started dancing in front of us, we all clapped, encouraging him. After he had done a lap of the room he slammed the door shut and screamed, causing the glass in the door to shatter, I was completely shocked.
I decided to have a little nap on John's shoulder, he didn't seem to mind, he rested his head on top of mine and some time later I was awakened by Claire asking Bender questions.
"Are all these your girlfriends?" she asked looking through his wallet.
"Some of them"
"What about the others?"
"Well some I consider girlfriends, some I just consider"
"Consider what?"
"Whether or not I wanna hang out with them" he shrugged, then apologised, forgetting I was trying to nap.
"Don't you believe in just one guy, one girl?" she prodded.
"Do you?"
"Yeah, that's the way it should be"
"How come you got so much shit in your purse?" He asked trying to avoid the subject.
"How come you got so many girlfriends?"
"I asked first"
"I don't know.. I guess I never throw anything away" she shrugged.
"Neither does he" he laughed at me.
I looked over to see Allison, Brian and Andrew going through the same sort of conversation. Allison seemed to be getting upset but Andrew managed to calm her down after a moment. A little while later we all sat in a circle on the floor.
"What would I do for a million bucks? Well, I guess I'd do as little as I had to" Andrew explained.
"That's boring" laughed Claire.
"Well, how am I supposed to answer?"
"The idea is to like search your mind for the absolute limit. Would you drive to school naked?" she reeled out another question for him.
"Would I have to get out of the car?"
"Of course"
"Spring or winter?"
"It doesn't matter, spring"
"In front of the school or in the back?"
"Either"
"Yes" he admitted.
"I'd do that!" Shouted Allison, we all looked at her.
"I'll do anything sexual, I don't need a million dollars to do it either" she stated.
"You're lying" Claire looked disgusted.
"I already have, I've done just about everything there is except a few things that are illegal, I'm a nymphomaniac"
"Lie" Claire rolled her eyes.
"Are your parents aware of this?" Brian asked, shocked.
"The only person I told was my shrink"
"What'd he do?" Andrew asked.
"He nailed me"
"Very nice" I laughed.
"He's an adult!" Claire screeched.
"He's married too"
"Do you have any idea how completely gross that is? Are you crazy?"
"Obviously she's crazy if she's screwing her shrink" Brian quickly added.
"Have you ever done it?" Allison asked Claire.
"I don't even have a psychiatrist. Haven't we already covered this?"
"You never answered the question" John commented with a small smile.
"Neither did she" she pointed at me.
"Hey, I'm an open book, what you see is what you get" I stated.
"That doesn't answer the question" she gurned.
"I'm just as untouched as you, Princess"
"It's kind of a double edged sword isn't it?" Allison interjected.
"What?" Claire asked confused, of course the princess wouldn't know what that meant.
"Well if you say you haven't, then you're a prude. If you have, you're a slut. It's a trap. You want to but you can't, but when you do you wish you didn't, right?"
"Wrong" Claire looked embarrassed, they kept harrassing her about it until she finally shouted out.
"NO I NEVER DID IT!"
"Me either, I'm not a nymphomaniac, I'm a compulsive liar" Allison admitted, Claire didn't look happy.
"You are such a bitch! You did that on purpose to fuck me over!"
"I would though, if you love someone it's okay" Allison smiled sweetly.
"I can't believe you, you're so weird. You don't say anything all day and then you open your mouth and unload all these tremendous lies over us!"
"You're just pissed because she got you to admit something you didn't want to admit to" Andrew backed her up.
"Okay fine, but that doesn't make it any less bizarre"
"What's bizarre? We're all pretty bizarre, some of us are just better at hiding it, that's all" Andrew patted Allison's hand.
"How are you bizarre?" Claire asked Andrew, after a few seconds Allison decides to answer.
"He can't think for himself"
"She's right. Do you know why I'm here? I taped a kids buns together" we went on to learn how he had caused a kid pain, when they ripped the tape off, it took some of his skin too. He did it to please his father, to try to make him think he was cool.
"I think your old man and my old man should get together and go bowling" Bender and Andrew shared a laugh.
"It's like me you know, with my grades" Brian had never liked himself, he got so worked up about failing a task that he contemplated suicide, Vernon had found a flare gun in his locker and sent him to detention.
"It's not funny" he explained when everyone laughed.
"Yeah I guess it is" he joined in the laughter.
"I can write with my toes, I can also eat, brush my teeth, play Heart & Soul on the piano" Allison spoke up after feeling left out.
"I can make spaghetti!" Brian grinned.
"I can do piercings?" I added in a questioning tone.
"I can get into trouble faster than you guys put together" John laughed.
"I can... tape all your buns together?" Andrew blushed.
"What can you do?" Bender asked Claire.
"I can't do anything"
"Everybody can do something" I told her.
"I can't do anything okay" she said finally. We left it at that, then John started ranting.
"What do you care anyway? I don't count right? I could disappear forever and it wouldn't make any difference. I may as well not even exist at this school, remember? And you, don't like me anyway" he said to Andrew and Claire.
"You know I have just as many feelings as you do!"
"God you're pathetic. Don't ever compare yourself to me. School would probably fucking shut down if you didn't show up! Did your daddy buy you those earrings for Christmas?" Claire started crying, I was taken aback, I didn't know what to do.
"I bet he bought those for you, you know what I got for Christmas A carton of cigarettes, the old man grabbed me and said "Hey, smoke up Johnny!" don't cry here, okay?"
"My God, are we gonna be like our parents?" Andrew sounded worried.
"Not me, ever" Claire sniffed.
"It's unavoidable, it just happens" Allison added.
"What happens?" I asked her.
"When you grow up, your heart dies"
"Who cares?" John asks, Allison is on the brink of tears.
"I care" I smiled at her.
"Um I was just thinking.. I know it's kind of a weird time, but I was just wondering what is gonna happen to us on Monday? When we're all together again? I mean I consider you guys my friends, I'm not wrong am I?" Brian struggled to get his question out.
"So on Monday, what happens?" he asked.
"Are we're still friends you mean?" Claire finished for him, he nodded.
"Truth? I don't think so..."
"Do you mean just John... Or all of us?" Allison asked.
"All of you"
"Real nice attitude Claire!" Andrew growled at her.
"Oh be honest Andy, if Brian came up to you what would you do? You'd say hi and when he left you'd cut him up so your friends don't think you like him!"
"What if I came up to you?" Allison asked her.
"Same thing"
"You're a bitch" I shouted at her.
"You don't got the balls to stand up to your friends and tell them you're gonna like who you wanna like!" Bender added.
"Okay what about you? Why don't you take Alice and Allison to one of your heavy metal vomit parties? Or take Brian out to the parking lot at lunch to get high? What about Andy, what about me? Your friends would laugh their asses off and you'd tell them you were sleeping with me so they'd forgive you" Claire summed it up.
"You're so stuck up!" I seethed.
"Don't ever talk about my friends. You don't know any of my friends. You certainly wouldn't condescend to speak to any of my friends so you just stick to the things you know!"
"And as far as being concerned about what's gonna happen when you and I walk down the hall at school, you can forget it! Just bury your head in the sand and wait for your fucking prom!" John shouted.
"I hate you!"
"Would you do that to me?" Brian asked Allison.
"I don't think my friends would mind"
"Alice?" he asked me.
"I am friends with whomever I choose"
"I just wanna tell you that I wouldn't do that. I wouldn't and I won't. That's real shitty"
"You don't know how it feels" Claire sobbed.
"Well at least I know where I stand" I pursed my lips.
We got into a deep conversation about how our friends were so different, which helped us see how Andrew and Claire, really hated being who they were.
The mood was lifted when Brian put on some music and we all danced around the library, Andrew fist pumping the air playing air guitar, Brian dancing in the office, Claire and Allison twirling around and me and John head banged at the desks.
Unfortunately all too soon, me and John had to head back to the office, of course we had to go back through the heating duct which was getting a bit of a drag.
I could hear the rest talking back at the library, talking about Brian writing the essay for all of us. Poor Brian. John jumped down from the duct easily, I wasn't having so much luck.
"Little help?" I asked shyly, Bender put his arms around me and lowered me to the floor.
And then he smiled at me. Not a cheesy grin or a smirk like usual, it was just a pure, honest smile. I couldn't help but smile back, John really was a great looking guy.
He put his hand against the wall next to him, facing away as if waiting for the last few minutes of the day to be over. I took advantage of this quiet moment by leaning in and planting a kiss on his neck, his skin was so warm and a bit rough where his stubble was starting to grow back.
"Why'd you do that?" He asked.
"I knew you wouldn't, this way you haven't betrayed your army of girlfriends" he laughed and shook his head.
"I don't have a girlfriend at all" I smiled at him.
"Don't you want one?"
"Truth?"
"Truth" I nodded.
"I don't want to be alone any more" he whispered and I put my arms around him, hugging him tightly.
Not long after, Vernon unlocked the door and we joined up with the rest of the group before leaving the school. Carl the Janitor was cleaning in front of the doors.
"See ya soon" I grinned at him.
"See you next Saturday" John smiled and I pulled him along, holding his hand.
"You bet" Carl muttered something to himself, not loud enough for us to hear.
Brian got into his dad's car, Andrew and Allison kissed before getting into their cars and driving off, then Claire nodded at us and got into her dad's car and waved at us as she left.
John turned to me and tucked a strand of my hair behind my ear, before leaning in for a small kiss. This was the best detention, ever.
John and I walked home together hand in hand.
"So, Monday?" He asked.
"If you're not too embarrassed by me" I winked.
"Not one bit" he squeezed my hand a little to make his point.
"Folks not home?" he asked as we got outside my house.
"I uh, live on my own... Parents died a few years back" he nodded in understanding and apologised.
"I better get home, dad'll kick my ass if I'm late" I frowned and touched his face.
"You don't have to go back there, you know?" he smiled at me.
"You're too sweet for your own good" he kissed me and began walking away.
"See you Monday!" I got to my door and turned just in time to see John thrust his fist into the air, giggling and blushing I shut the door and slid down, happier than I had been in a long time!
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