Chapter 7

Penny was in Stan's car, after seeing his house. It was almost seven o'clock and the sky looked cloudy. They were both silent for a while when Stan stopped the car before her house.

"I hope you had fun, Pen." He said, and smiled.

"Yeah, I did. And, thanks for understanding me." She said.

"Of course. I'll see you soon, then." He said.

"Yeah, bye." She said.

"Bye." He said, and placed his hand on her cheek and kissed her. Penny stared at him, with a look that looked neither confused nor surprised. She smiled and got out of his car until she reached her gate. She waved at him until the car disappeared unto the street. Penny entered the house and saw her brother waiting for dinner.

"I thought you'll be back around eleven." Penny said, looking at Johnny, who looked disgruntled and impatient.

"I'm four hours early and you're mad about that?" he asked.

"No, Jonathan, I'm not. I was just curious." She said, and folded her arms.

"Well, it's none of your business." He said.

"Well, fine." She said, and walked away, going upstairs.

"Okay, I'm sorry, Penny. By the way, how was Stan's house?" he asked, brightly.

"Fine. And his parents are really high-class." Penny said, going back to the living room. "His mom's sort of glamorous and stuff like that and his dad's business-like."

"How was his cribs?"

"Great. It was really large and they had a lot of these, stuff that rich people had." She said. "And, I have to tell you, this is the first time in my life to meet someone's parents."

"Yeah, right. Is he like your boyfriend now?" Johnny asked, with a teasing look on his face.

"I don't know." She said, cluelessly.

"C'mon, usually you would meet his parents because it means like your together or something. Especially when he shows you to his room. And speaking of his room, did you guys do anything there?" he asked.

"He did show me to his room but we didn't do anything God-knows-what in there!" she protested.

"No, Penny. I didn't mean those stuff!" Johnny said, disgusted. "Your mind's gross."

"Well, if you think it's gross, then why the hell are you doing it?" she joked, and laughed all the way upstairs.

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Penny was with her friends, sitting on their usual lunch table, staring at each other, tapping their fingers and thinking of something. Penny told them about visiting Stan's house and when he asked her to be his girlfriend.

"Yes! No! Yes, No!" Penny kept saying. "Guys, I can't do this!"

"Well, what answer is mostly on your mind?" Jadey asked.

"Usually it's yes." Penny answered surely.

"Then, say yes to him!" Roma said.

"Wait, guys. Let me think." Penny said, and looked down and closed her eyes.

"Concentrate, Pen." Jadey said, and closed her eyes too.

"Yes, think of the answer that you know that's right."

"Alright, guys, I've decided now. And my answer is, YES!" Penny said, bravely and stood from the table.

"Yeah, Penny! Tell 'em." Jadey said.

"And, uh, you might wanna come after him 'cause he's leaving the cafeteria." Roma said, and pointed at Stan, who was walking quickly, behind his friends.

"Oh, right." Penny said, and ran after him. "Stan! STAN, I'm giving you an answer! Stan, I'm saying YES!"

While running after him, Chris and Gordie's table was nearby the cafeteria exit and Chris wondered what Penny was yelling about.

"What is the matter with Penny?" Gordie asked, and looked at her running after Stan and kept saying "Stan, I'm saying yes."

"I don't care." Chris said, and ignored her.

"I don't know why but it's hard to ignore someone shouting." he said, and looked at her.

"What is she saying yes to? And what answer will she give to Stan?" he asked confusingly.

"Maybe, she's gonna say yes to something he asked like-"Teddy guessed, but was cut off by Chris when an idea popped into his mind and made him feel mad. He's grabbed Vern's new tetra pack orange juice and threw it on Penny's way, making her not see it, and slip on the floor. She slipped and landed on her ankle, making her grunt softly. She looked and saw Stan leaving and she wasn't able to catch up since she lost him. Gordie stood up, looking shocked. She looked at their table, and Vern pointed at Chris. Chris saw Vern pointing at him and he stood up and faced Penny.

"Penny, are you okay?" Jadey and Roma said, and helped her get up. She nodded and looked at Chris disbelievingly.

"What did you just do?" she asked him, calmly.

"Well, what were you doing with those football players?"

"Why the hell do you care? We weren't even doing anything to you!"

"Oh, yeah? Don't you know that you're acting like a fucking bastard ever since you started hanging out with those douche bags!" Chris said angrily, making Gordie hold him back.

"I don't know why it's affecting you. I try to stay away from you so that you could move on with your life." Penny said, and stepped to another direction to leave. Stan's other friend, Rafael Ronnie, who scored the last goal last game, passed by and looked at Penny confusingly.

"Hi, Penny." He said as he passed by. Maybe he's going where Stan's going, she knew.

"Hey, Rafa, where are you guys going?" she asked him.

"To train." He said.

"Oh, okay." Penny said, and he left the cafeteria too. She walked away with Jadey and Roma back to their table and got an extra napkin, dropped some water on it from her bottle, and wiped off the sticky juice on her shoes.

Penny was feeling awkward and impatient during Chemistry class since she's partners with Chris. They both had to work on an experiment that was really hard since the chemicals needed to be combined were really dangerous to their skin. Some student's skin was even almost burned off. Penny carefully poured some chemical in a test tube and asked Chris without looking up,

"Could you at least help me out with this?"

"Stop hanging out with them, then I will." He answered, and picked up a flask with bubbling green chemicals.

"I don't know why the hell you give a shit about that! I thought you said that you wouldn't care about me and my business anymore."

"Well, I just can't help ignoring someone Ihate and will never come back to again!" He said, and dropped the flask that he was holding on the floor, that held some strong chemicals. The flask broke into shiny pieces and the chemicals still bubbled on the floor and spread into a big puddle on the floor.

"Well if you hate me, forget me!"

"Excuse me, Chambers, Connors, detention." She declared and handed them two slips.

"But, I didn't break anything." Penny protested.

"Yes, but you did the experiment wrong and you're not working with your partner. Now, c'mon, before I give you another one tomorrow." she threatened calmly and they both stood up and took the slips and went out of the lab. She looked at her slip which says, detention for 30 minutes. She glared at Chris looking pissed who didn't look at her and was reading his slip. He had two papers on his hands, she peeked at the other one, which was like a letter to his parents for breaking a lab material. She felt a bit sad for him because he had to show it to his dad and he could get beaten up again. And she had her first detention on her final year. The last thing she ever wanted to happen to her aside from dying and getting pregnant. They both arrived at a door with the word DETENTION labeled on it and they both opened the door gently and entered the room, with the cranky detention monitor.

"Where could they be?" Gordie complained, looking for Chris, not knowing that Chris and Penny had detention. He was with Teddy and they both had their girlfriends with them who were looking for Penny.

"Maybe they made up again." Roma guessed, thinking how Chris and Penny would look like, together again.

"If they're back together again, what do you think is gonna happen to Stan?" Jadey asked Roma.

"Oh, right."

"Look, guys, there they are." Teddy pointed. Chris was walking holding a sheet of paper and looked pissed. Penny followed by and didn't look happy either.

"What happened to you?" Gordie asked, tired of waiting for Chris.

"I had detention." He answered, and looked at Penny, like he was blaming her. Penny looked back at him and walked away out of the hallways. She really didn't feel like she and Chris had another chance to get back together again. She already knew that he hates her, and maybe the time will come when she'll hate him back. And she thought about her remaining feelings for him, she felt them fade away. Since it started to fade, it hurt a little bit inside of her. But she knows that she could fight it.

"And what happened with that?" Gordie asked again, as he looked at Penny walk away. Jadey and Roma looked at each other and decided to come after Penny. They slowly walked out and followed after Penny.

"Guys, my dad's gonna kill me." Chris said, nervously.

"What? What happened?" Teddy asked. Chris showed a letter to his parents and Gordie grabbed it from him and read it.

"You broke a flask with skin-burning chemicals?"

"Yeah, I screwed." Chris admitted and took back the letter and folded it.

"How the hell did you break it? You got scared of the chemicals?" Teddy asked, sarcastically.

"No, Teddy. Penny and I were kind of, arguing and then I really couldn't help it. And then, she got detention too because of me. And I'm sure she's really pissed off and now she hates me."

"Well, what if she just wanted to stay in detention with you?"

"No, she was really mad at me. You know what, I think I give up. I think we'll ever be together again."

"Chris, you can't just give up, you're Chambers."

"Yeah, and I gotta go, my old Mr. Chambers'll have to see this letter." Chris said, and walked away nervously home.

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"Are you gonna have to make us beg or what?" Jadey demanded, forcing Penny to tell her about what happened in Chemistry.

"I told you. It's both our fault."

"Yeah, well, what exactly happened? Just give us some little details."

"Okay, we were kind of arguing silently then we got caught."

"What were you guys fighting about anyway?" Jadey asked simply.

"Well, I didn't want to start, but he did. He kept telling to stop hanging out with them. And then he dropped a flask and spilled chemicals and I was caught not working with him." Penny said, sounding pissed.

"Oh, gosh, what's happening to Chris?" Jadey wondered.

"Just let him is. He'll get over it soon."

"And have you gotten over it already?"

"Well, I guess."

Okay, I'm REALLY sorry guys it took me like 3 or more months to finish this effin' chappie. I just keep forgetting to do it. And a lot of stuff's happening since the beginning of this year. I'll try to finish this story already. Congratulations to Roger Federer, happy birthday to Cristiano Ronaldo, you really didn't deserve that stupid red card! Read it now, and review now.