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7:00 AM

Eli Watkins made his way to school early on this Monday morning. Gone was the usual cocky swagger and late arrival. Eli knew his reputation was in the shitter following the party. Not only did the cops ruin the party and catch several kids, but the news of what almost happened with freshman Jennifer Mozely and the fact that he punched Ned Bigby, brother of Eric, right in the face. This was not the day to be Eli.

"Just be cool, avoid the subject" he thought "That is actually going to be really hard"

Eli hustled off into his first period classroom, away from the soon to be crowded hallways of James K Polk High School. "At least I can keep to myself in here" he said quietly to himself as he took out a book to read. He was reading Darkly Dreaming Dexter, the basis for current cult TV program, Dexter. Eli was strange like that, a different person than the usual jock crowd he ran with.

"I would love to be Dexter, you know, like solving murders with murders"

Eli's mind was very dark at times

Meanwhile

Ned struggled to get up in the morning. That eye injury really messed him up, as intense pain raged through out his whole body. But, as much as he detested school, he had to go. So, he dragged himself out of bed to get changed, jeans and a simple t-shirt would have to suffice, and he went downstairs for food.

"Well looked who dragged himself out of bed" Eric said as Ned sat down on the table "You have only been in it all weekend"

"Yea, well you try getting hit in the face and see how you feel"

"Is that a way to talk to your loving brother" Eric said and then whispered to Ned "From a night of partying and being somewhere where mom would not approve?"

The last thing Ned needed now was for his mom to find out where he was. "Don't you even think about telling her"

"I would never. I can be pretty mean, but not that mean"

"Yeah, I don't know about that"

"You can think that, but we have to get going now" Eric said as he pushed Ned out the door

"But what about breakfast?"

"It will still be there when we get home"

School

The hot topic of the school on this morning was what exactly happened on Saturday night. Suzie had already been going around talking about what happened, so the word was going around quick. So when Ned and Moze arrived at school, everyone came to ask questions.

"Did you really get punched?"

"Were you raped Moze? What about you Ned?"

"Was it really Eli? He seems so nice"

"Did Moze hit you Ned?"

The questions all didn't make sense, but they were asked anyway. The two just walked off and left the school to think what they wanted to think.

Seth walked up to Ned when he got to school. "How does it feel to be the most popular kid in school, as of this moment anyway?"

"It sucks, my face hurts and these people won't leave me alone" Ned said as another freshman walked up to him "GO AWAY!" he screamed at the kid. The kid did an about face and ran away.

"Temper Temper" Cookie said as he walked by with his arm around Lisa "I thought you were the type to not get angry?"

"Different situation" Ned said as he walked away

"You can't run away from your problems"

Moze found herself in a strange predicament. She could either say the truth on what happened and get Eli in trouble or she could uphold her good girl reputation and deny even being drunk. She could ruin Eli's reputation or possibly her own.

"Is it worth it?" she thought "I should ask someone, but whom?"

She searched through her phone book for people. She settled on someone she could always trust, Cookie. So she sent out the text message

"Hey I have a question"

Cookie replied a few minutes later. "Okay, shoot….even though I probably know what it is"

"Should I say what happened on Saturday?"

"Oh, that's not the question I thought you were going to ask, but yeah, you probably should"

"But why, what would that do for me, except ruin my reputation"

"You can't keep up the charade of a good girl forever Moze, so it's best to just get rid of it now"

"I guess"

"Trust me; it's better to get his ruined reputation than to take a slight hit to yours"

"Alright, I'll tell the next person who asks….but off topic, what question did you think I was gonna ask?"

"You'll know when you ask it"

"Damn Cookie, always being mysterious" she muttered to herself

The teacher of first period science, Mrs. Ferrans, looked at Moze "Anything you wish to say Ms. Mozely?"

"Ummm, no, nothing I can think of anyway"

"Good, now pay attention"

Lunch

By now, news of what Eli did had reached everyone. Moze told the next person who asked, who happened to be Missy. She was the new school gossip queen, and she also had some explaining.

"I was drunk, that is all it was. Besides, like I would ever like Loomer" she said with a chuckle to her clique of girl friends. Her friends all agreed with her and Missy knew it. Missy had the ability to make people believe her words, even if they were complete lies. This is how she became one of the more popular girls in the school, by lying to less intelligent ones. She seemed vapid on the outside, but Missy was as smart as they came.

Eli's reputation was in the shitter by this point. He slowly walked into lunch hoping to be undetected but was easily spotted. He tried to ignore the comments and insults from schoolmates. They ranged from a simple "Asshole" to "I thought I knew you" to "You are the biggest piece of shit in the world". It was harsh he thought, he didn't actually do anything, he almost did, but didn't.

One person had a major problem with Eli though: Eric Bigby. Eric walked right up to Eli and was fully prepared to knock him out, but a voice of reason came over him. "Eric, don't do it, you will be no better than he is" Mary said to him as she and several other kids held him back. Eli smirked and remarked "He couldn't do shit to me anyway"

"Don't taunt me Eli, I'll fucking kill you"

"Like you could, you are weak"

No one wanted to hold Eric back, but they realized it was for his best. "Keep running your mouth Eli, you will get what's coming to you" Eric said as he walked away.

Ned sat down at his lunch table for the first time since last week. The table now had quite a robust group of people: Moze, Cookie, Seth, Coconut Head, Lisa, Evelyn, and two rather unwelcome guests in his book, Martin and Suzie. Martin still had his black eye, but looked better than Ned now. "Now you know how it feels" Martin said.

"Fuck off" Ned replied

The rest of that week went by in a blur for everyone. Eli was getting more and more shit, and his true personality was starting to manifest in the actions he did. He had a shorter temper and consistently antagonized Ned and his friends. His life was ruined by their actions and now he was going to ruin theirs.

Moze came to a conclusion during the week regarding her and Ned. She decided to not come right out with everything. She knows that Ned likes her, at least according to Eric, but doesn't know if Ned knows it himself. So, she is just going to wait and see. But, she didn't know that Ned also thought this.

After Ned had spoken to Eric about Moze, he needed to know if Moze thought the same thing. But, he couldn't just come right out and ask, so he wanted to see if her actions gave any indication. So far, they haven't but Ned was not going to give up. He was going to keep on believing.

However, some other crushes were going to be taking form as well, these ones rather unexpected.

Loomer found himself thinking more and more about Missy. It wasn't just in the dirty way of the blowjob though, he just thought about her. He realized that she complimented him nicely. They were both misunderstood, each having rather sour reputations. Missy was still mean and so was Loomer. "Maybe I should try a real relationship" he thought "What's the worst that could happen?". But now the question was, does Missy have any feelings for Loomer?

Seth sat on his bed, just kind of staring off into space. He was frustrated, but for once, not with others, but with himself. He felt like he didn't know himself any more, a strange feeling began to act inside him. He thought about his friends, something that made him always feel better, but this time it wasn't working. He began to think about Cookie in particular. They had always been friends, but they really came together during the summer and the beginning of the year. Seth just kind of gravitated towards Cookie, he was happy when he was with him. Seth could be himself around Cookie and always enjoyed his company.

"Why can't girls be like Cookie" he said to himself "He is ideal for me"

Seth's eyes went wide when he realized what he said. Ideal for Me

"No, no, no, no" he thought "Can't be, did I really just say that, hell did I just think that?"

Seth finally realized what that feeling was inside of him: Love

To be continued….

Next Chapter: Rumors pt. 2

Eli and Eric confrontation! Seth talks openly about his feelings! Loomer and Missy talk about their problems!

This is just the planting of the seeds for the big arc for this story. The story will end at the end of freshman year and the time in the chapters is going to speed up as well.

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