This one is a lot longer than my other chapters. I DON'T own Breakfast Club or Twisted. This is just for fun. Please enjoy :)
"So...so..." Bender said to the Princess and Jock. "Are you guys like boyfriend girlfriend?" They ignored him, so he continued. "Steady dates...Lovers...Come on Sporto, level with me? You slip her the hot...beef...injection?" That got their attention.
"Go to hell!"
"Enough!" They shout simultaneously.
"Hey! What's going on in there?" Vernon yells from his office. It's silent for a few seconds until we realize Vernon isn't going to check on us.
Bender gets up. "What do you say we close that door?" He jumps onto the railing. "We can't have any kind of a party with Vernon checking us out every few seconds."
"You know, the door is supposed to stay open." Brian says.
"So what?"
"So why don't you just shut up? There's 6 other people in here you know." Jock says.
"Oh look, you can count. See, I knew you had to be smart to be a wrestler." Benders mocks. Here comes another argument.
"Who the hell are you to judge anybody anyway?"
"Really." The Princess agrees.
"You know Bender, " The Jock says. "You don't even count. I mean, if you disappear forever it wouldn't make any difference. You may as well not even exist at this school."
Bender turns his head and I can see the hurt on his face. It's not just him though, it really hits home for me and I feel Danny tense up too. I jump up and get in the Jock's face. "Really? You must think you're someone real important to say that to anyone, huh?" I move away and stand by Bender. "Well, you know what Sporto?" I spit. "Not everyone here loves you."
Bender decides to jump in. "Well, I'll just run right out and join the wrestling team." The Jock and Princess laugh. "Maybe the prep club too."
"Student council." I add.
"Nah, they wouldn't take you guys."
"I'm hurt." Bender says mockingly.
"You know why people like you two knock everything?" The Princess jumps in.
"Oh, this should be rich." I snort.
"Oh, this should be stunning." Bender says at the same time. We smirk at each other for a quick second and then turn our attention back to the Princess.
"It's because you're afraid." She says 'all-knowingly'. I hear Danny snort.
"You richies are so smart. That's exactly why I'm not heavy in activities." Bender says.
"You're a big coward." She states.
"I'm in a math club." Brian says, but no one acknowledges him.
"See, you're afraid they won't take you. You don't belong, so you just have to dump all over it." She continues.
"Well, it wouldn't have anything to do with you activities people being assholes, now would it?" My tone is dripping with sarcasm and it sends Danny into a fit of laughter. Bender gives me an is-he-alright look. I giggle and shrug. "Inside joke." I say so only he hears.
"Well, you wouldn't know. You don't even know any of us." The Princess says ignoring Danny.
"Well, I don't know any lepers either, but I'm not gonna run out and join one of their fucking clubs." Bender says.
"Hey, watch the mouth, huh?" The Jock scolds. I am a little impressed by this and my respect for him goes up a bit. My father always said 'a man should never swear around a girl or woman out respect.' He also taught me to respect my elders, but it's hard for me to respect someone who doesn't show any back like Vernon.
"I'm in the physics club too." Brian says.
"Excuse me a sec." Bender says and then turns his attention to Brian. "What are you babbling about?"
"Well, what I'd said was, I'm in a math club, a Latin club, and the physics club-physics club."
Bender leans forward. "Hey, Cherry." He calls the Princess. "Do you belong to the physics club?"
"That's an academic club." She says in a 'duh' tone of voice.
"So?" I ask genuinely confused.
"So, academic clubs aren't the same as other kinds of clubs." She answered and I realized what she meant. She wouldn't be caught dead with the so-called 'nerds.'
"Ah, but to dorks like him they are." Bender continues and asks Brian, "What do you guys do in your club?"
Brian swallows before answering. "In physics we-we uh...talk about physics and properties of physics."
"So it's sorta social, demented and sad, but social. Right?" He says looking at Cherry and I don't know why but I begin to feel jealous. I shake it off and dismiss it as missing Lacey, Jo, and Rico.
"Well, I guess you could consider it a social situation. I mean, there are other children in my club. And uh...and at the end of the year we have a big banquet at the Hilton." Brian says.
"Ya load up, ya party." Bender says.
"Well, we get dressed up, but we don't get high."
"Only burners like you two get high." Red sneers.
I lean in and say in a menacing voice, "Darlin', you don't know nothing about me and believe me, you don't want to." My Southern accent slips before I can catch myself. Her eyes widen for second and I walk back to my seat beside Danny.
Brian is still rambling on. "...My mom doesn't like me to wear other people's shoes. And my cousin Ken-Kendall from Indiana he got high once." The silent girl behind him makes a gun with her fingers and shoots him as he kept talking. "You know, he started eating like really weird foods and then he just felt like he didn't belong anywhere. Kinda like twilight zone kinda."
"Sounds like you." Red says to Bender.
I roll my eyes for the millionth time today and open my mouth to say something when the Jock beats me to it. "Look, you guys keep up your talking and Vernon's gonna come right in here. I got a meet on Saturday and I'm not gonna miss on account of you boneheads."
That just gets Bender started again. "Oh, wouldn't that be a bite, huh? Missing a whole wrestling meet."
"Well you wouldn't know anything about it, faggot. You haven't competed in your whole life." The Jock says getting riled up.
"Oh yeah and I feel empty inside because I have such a deep admiration for guys who roll around on the floor with other guys." Bender teases.
"Ah, you'd never miss it." Jock says brushing him off. "You don't have any goals."
"Oh, but I do."
"Yeah?"
"Yeah. I wanna be just like you. I figure all I need is a lobotomy and some tights." Bender says as Danny and I laugh.
"You wear tights?" Brian asks finding it funny that the oh-so-cool jock wears tights.
"No, I don't wear tights. I wear the required uniform."
"Tights." I manage to say between laughs. He looks at me ready to say something, but I give him a challenging look and he turns away. We hear noises coming from outside and Bender hurries to the chair between Red and Sporto.
After a few seconds, Bender whoops and jumps up from his seat. "There's not supposed to be any monkey business." Brian says.
Bender starts walking backwards and points at him. "Young man, have you finished your paper?" He says in a mock authoritative voice and turns back around.
"Come on Bender, don't screw around!" Jock yells to him.
"What are you gonna do?" Red asks him.
"Drop dead I hope." Jock says and I glare at him.
"Bender that's school property!" Brian says to him. Just then I hear the door slam shut as Bender rushes to his original seat tossing a screw to me. As everyone starts yelling at Bender I drop it in my bag and hurry with my stuff back to my seat.
Everyone hushes as soon as we hear Vernon outside. "Dammit!" He yells before entering. "Why is that door closed?" He says pointing behind him. "Why is that door closed!?" He asks again when no one answers.
"How are we supposed to know? We're not supposed to move right?" Bender says staring at his hands.
"Why!?" Vernon asks Red.
"We were just sitting here like we're supposed to." She says innocently.
"Who closed that door?" He asks the group.
"I think a screw fell out of it." I say.
"It just closed, sir." Jock says and I can see Bender smirk to himself realizing that no one is going to rat him out.
"Who closed that door?" He asks the pale girl. She squeaks and puts her head down.
"She doesn't talk, sir." Bender says and the girl squeaks in agreement.
"Give me that screw." Vernon says to Bender.
"I don't have it."
You want me to yank you outta that seat and shake it out of you?"
"I told you, I don't have it. Screws fall out all the all the time; the world is an imperfect place."
"Give it to me Bender."
"Excuse me sir..." I say. "Why would anybody wanna steal a screw?"
Vernon turns his attention to me. "Watch it young lady." I roll my eyes. "Or maybe your covering for this punk."
I start getting nervous, but I don't let it show. "Whatever, like I have any reason to help out someone I don't even know."
"Give me the screw." He says to me.
"I don't have it." I say with a glare. He starts walking towards me and Danny hurries in front of him. I saw Bender and the Jock move to get up, but they stayed put when they saw Danny get up.
"Sit down, Desai." Vernon says to him.
"I'm sorry sir, but I can't do that."
"And why not?" Vernon says challengingly.
"She means the world to me. I don't know you and I don't trust you, so there is no way in hell I'm letting you anywhere near her." Danny says stepping forwards and Vernon stumbles back while trying to maintain his dignity. He glares at Danny, but I can tell he's scared.
I get up and grab Danny's wrist, pulling him back to the table. "It's okay. I still train everyday. I can handle myself." He looks at me worriedly. "I'm fine...Honest." He relaxes, but doesn't leave my side.
Vernon walks back to the door and puts a metal folding chair in between to hold it open. "The door's way too heavy sir." Bender says. Vernon lets go of the door and it slams shut, spitting the chair out. We can hear him swearing outside the door.
He comes back. "Andrew Clarke," He snaps. "Get up here. Front and center. Come on, let's go!" I watch as Sporto gets up and reluctantly walks to Vernon. I file away the name, so I don't keep calling him Jock or Sporto in my head.
"Hey, how come Andrew gets to get up?" Bender says. "If he gets up; we'll all get up. It'll be anarchy! It's outta my hands." I giggle to myself, but he hears and winks at me. Thankfully, he turns back before noticing I'm blushing. Danny cocks an eyebrow at me teasingly and I stick my tongue out at him. He just chuckles continues watching the scene Vernon is causing.
Andrew and Vernon have moved the magazine rack into the doorway. As Andy is clamoring over the rack to get back through Bender says, "That's very clever sir, but what if there's a fire? I think violating fire codes and endangering the lives of children would be unwise at this juncture in your career sir."
Vernon starts acting like it was Andy's idea and tells him to move the rack back. "Well, you know the school comes equipped with fire exits at either end of the library." Brian says.
"Show Dick some respect." Benders says to him.
Vernon tells Andy to sit. "I expected a little more from a varsity letterman." He said like it was Andy's fault. He looked at Bender. "You're not fooling anybody Bender-"
"Give it a rest, would ya? Kid's innocent, so back the hell up." I interrupted, forgetting to hide my accent again.
"That's it missy! You just earned yourself another Saturday here." Vernon yelled pointing at me.
"Well woop-dee-fucking-doo..." I twirled my finger sarcastically.
"And that's another one right!" He yelled then turned back to Bender. "The next screw that falls out is gonna be you." Bender mumbled something under his breath. "What was that?" He said walking over to Bender.
"Eat. My. Shorts." Bender answered enunciating each word.
"You just bought yourself another Saturday mister."
"I'm crushed." He said rolling his eyes.
"You just bought one more right there."
"I'm free the Saturday after that, beyond that I'm gonna have to check my calendar."
"Good! Because it's gonna be filled! We'll keep this going. You want another one?" Bender just leaned back. " Say the word; just say the word. Instead of going to prison you'll come here. Are you through?"
"No." I face-palmed when he said this.
"I'm doing society a favor!" Wait, what!?
"So?"
"So that's another one right now. I've got you for the rest of your natural born life if you don't watch your step! You want another one?!"
"Yes."
"You got it! You got another one right there; that's another one pal."
"Cut it out!" Red said and then mouthed 'stop' when Bender looked at her.
"You through?" Vernon asked him.
"Not even close, bud." He said angrily. I swear he is doing this on purpose. Is he trying to avoid something at home?
"You got one more right there."
"You really think I give a shit?"
"Another. You through?"
"Oh, come on Dick. Just leave already; ain't nobody find your company even remotely pleasant." I spoke up.
"Well, I hope you find Mr. Bender's company pleasant because you just earned yourself another Saturday!"
"Great!" I yelled.
"That's another one." I crossed my eyes and flipped him off. "And another one right there. I don't care if you do have the highest GPA in the school you keep this up and you'll spend the rest of high school here." He held up his 'bull horns' to Bender and I. "You two are mine. For the next two months I got'cha."
"I'm thrilled." Bender said sarcastically.
"Oh, I'm sure that's exactly what you want these people to think. You know something Bender, you ought to spend a little more time trying to do something with yourself and a little less time trying to impress people. You might be better off." He then addressed the group. "Alright, that's it! I'm gonna be right outside those doors. The next time I have to come in here I'm cracking skulls." He walked to door and held up his horns one more time before closing the door.
"Fuck you!" Bender yelled as soon as the door closed.
"Damn Nina! I knew you had balls, but I didn't know they were fucking brass." Danny chuckled.
"Yeah, yeah whatever." I huffed and blocked out his laughing as I went back to writing in my notebook. Why the hell did I just do that? The only time I would do anything like that was if someone was messing with Danny. I've never had so many outbursts before. What is with me today?